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Genesis 6 -- 50
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    "Continued to live  782 years.   Meanwhile  he became father  to sons  and daughters.   So all the days of  Methuselah  amounted to  969 years and he died.     And  Lamech lived on for 182 years.   Then he  became father to a  son.   And  he proceeded to call his name  Noah, saying -- "This one will bring us comfort  from our work and from the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which God has cursed."    And after fathering Noah Lamech continued to live on for 595 years.    Meanwhile  he  became  father to  sons and daughters.    So  all the days of  Lamech  amounted  to  777 years and he died.   And  Noah got to be  500 years old.   After that   Noah  became father to Shem, Ham and Japheth.       6  Now  it came about  that when  men started to grow in numbers on the surface of the ground and daughters were born to them, then the sons of the true God began to notice  the daughters of men, that  they were good looking,  and they went  taking wives for themselves,  namely,  all whom  they chose.    After  that  God said -- "My spirit shall  not act toward man indefinitely  in that he is also flesh.    Accordingly  his  days  shall  amount  to 120 years."    The Nephilim (giants, larger and stronger beings) proved to be in  the earth in those days,   and also afterward that,  when the sons of true God continued to have relations  with the daughters of  man and  they bore sons to them,  they  were the  mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame.     Consequently, God saw that  the  badness  of  man  was abundant in the earth and every inclination  of the thoughts of his  heart  was only  bad all the time.    And  God  felt regrets  that he had made men in the earth,  and felt hurt in his heart.    So the  God said -- "I am going to wipe men whom I have created off the surface of the ground,  from man to domestic animal, to moving animal and to  flying creature of the heavens,  because I do regret I have made  them.   But  Noah  found favor in the eyes of the Lord.   This is history of Noah.   Noah was righteous man.  He proved himself  faultless among his contemporaries.   Noah walked with the true God.    In time Noah became  father to 3 sons,  Shem, Ham and Japheth.    And the earth came to be  ruined in the sight of the  true God and the earth became filled with violence.   So God  saw the earth  and,  look!  it was ruined,  because  all flesh  had ruined its  way  on the earth.    After that God said to Noah -- "The end  of all flesh has come before me,  because the earth is full of violence and as a result  of them --  and here I am  bringing them to ruin together with  the earth.   Make for yourself an ark out of wood of a resinous tree.  You will make compartments in the ark,  and you must cover it inside and outside with tar.    And this is how you will make it --   300 cubits (450 feet) length of the ark, and  50 cubits (75 feet) its width,  and  30 cubits (45 feet) its height.    You will make  a tsohar (roof or window) for the ark,  and you will  complete it to the extent of a cubit (18 inches)  upward,  and the entrance of the ark you will put  in its side -- you will make it with a lower  story,  a 2nd story and a 3rd story. 

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  "And as for me,  here I am bringing the deluge (flood) of waters  upon  the earth  to bring to ruin all flesh  in which the force of life  is active from  under the heavens.  Everything that is in the earth will expire (die).   And  I do establish  my  covenant (agreement, relationship)  with you --  and you  must  go into the ark,  you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.   And of every living  creature  of every sort of flesh,  2 of each,  you will bring into the ark to preserve with  you.  Male and female they will be.  Of the flying creatures  according to the their kinds  and of  the domestic animals according to their kinds,  of all moving animals  of the ground according to their kinds,  2 of each will go in there to you to preserve them alive.    And as for you,  take for yourself  every sort of  food that is eaten,  you must gather it to yourself,  and it must serve  as food for you and for them."    And  Noah proceeded to do  according to all that  God had  commanded him.   He did just so.     

After that God said to Noah-- "Go, you  and all your  household,  into the ark,  because you are the one  I have seen  to be  righteous before me  among this generation.   Of every  clean beast  you must take to yourself by 7s,  the sire and its mate (males and its mates ) -- and of every beast that is not clean just  2, the sire and its mate,  also the flying creatures of heavens by 7s, male and female, to preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire earth.    For in just 7 days  more I am  making  it rain  upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights -- and I will wipe off every existing  thing that I have made off the surface of the ground."     And  Noah proceeded to do according to all that  God had  commanded him.    And  Noah was 600 years old when the deluge of waters  occurred  on  the  earth.     So  Noah went in,  and his sons and his wife  and  his sons' wives  with him,  into the ark  ahead of the waters  of the deluge.   Of  every  clean  beast and of every  beast  that is not clean and of the flying  creatures and everything that moves on the ground,  they  went in by 2s to Noah inside the ark,  male and female, just as God/Lord commanded  Noah.    And  7 days later it turned out that  the waters  of the deluge came upon the earth.     In the  600th year of Noah's life, in the 2nd month, on the 17th day of the month, on this day  all the springs of the vast watery  deep were broken open  and the floodgates of the heavens  were opened.   And the downpour upon  the earth went on  for 40 days and 40 nights.     On this very day Noah went in,  and Shem and Ham  and Japheth,  Noah's  sons,  and the wife of Noah  and the 3 wives of his sons with  him, into the ark -- they and  every  wild  beast according  to its kind,  and every domestic animal  of its kind,  and every moving animal that moves on the earth according to its kind  and every flying creature  accroding  to its kind,  very  bird,  every winged creature.  And  they kept going into  Noah inside  the ark,  2 by 2,  of every sort  of flesh in which  the force  of life  was active.   And  those going  in,  male and  female of  every sort of flesh,  went in,  just as God commanded him.    And  the  waters  became

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overwhelming and kept increasing greatly  upon the earth, but the ark kept going on the surface of the waters.   And the waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly  that  all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered.   Up to   15 cubits  (22 1/2 feet) the waters overwhelmed them   and the mountains became covered.  So  all flesh that was moving upon the earth expired, among  the flying creatures and among the domestic animals and  among the wild beasts and among all the swarms  that were swarming upon the earth, and all mankind.   Everything  in which  the breath  of the force  of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, died.   Thus he wiped out every existing thing that was on the surface of ground, from man to beast, to moving animal and to flying creature  of the heavens,  and they  were wiped off the earth, and only  Noah and those who were with him in the ark kept on surviving.   And the waters continued overwhelming the earth a  150 days. overwhelming and kept increasing greatly  upon the eaeth, but the ark kept going on the surface of the waters.   And the waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly  that  all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered.   Up to   15 cubits  (22 1/2 feet) the waters overwhelmed them   and the mountains became covered.  So  all flesh that was moving upon the earth expired, among  the flying creatures and among the domestic animals and  among the wild beasts and among all the swarms  that were swarming upon the earth, and all mankind.   Everything  in which  the breath  of the force  of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, died.   Thus he wiped out every existing thing that was on the surface of ground, from man to beast, to moving animal and to flying creature  of the heavens,  and they  were wiped off the earth, and only  Noah and those who were with him in the ark kept on surviving.   And the waters continued overwhelming the earth a  150 days.        8    After that God remembered  Noah and every wild beasts and every domestic animal  that was with him in the ark,  and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to subside.  And the springs of the watery deep  and the flood gates of heavens became stopped up, so the downpour  from the heavens  was restrained.    And the waters  began receding from off the earth, prgressviely  receding and at the end of  a 150 days  the waters were lacking.   And in the 7th month, on the 7th day of the month, the ark came to rest  on the mountains of Aarat.   And the waters  kept on progressively lessening  until  the 10th month.  in  the 10th  month, on the 1st of the month,  the tops of the mountains appeared.    So  it occurred that at the end of 40 days Noah  proceeded to open the window  of the ark that he had made.    After that he sent out a raven, and it continued flying outdoors, going and returning, until  the waters dried off the earth.   Later  he sent out  from him a dove  to  see whether the waters had abated from the surface of the ground.  And  the dove did  not find  any resting-place for the sole of its foot, and so it returned  to him  into the  ark because  the waters were yet upon the surface of the whole earth.   At that he put his hand out and took it  and brought it to himself inside the ark.   And he went on waiting  still another   7 days, and once again he sent out the dove from the ark.    Later on  the dove came to him about the time of evening and, look!   there was an olive leaf freshly plucked in its bill,  and  so Noah got to know that the waters had abated from the earth.   And  he went on waiting still another   7 days.  Then he sent out the dove, but it did not come   back again to him anymore.   Now  in the  601st year, in the  1st month, on the  1st day of the month, it came  about that the waters had drained  from off the earth -- and Noah proceeded to remove  the covering  of the ark and to look, and  here the surface of the ground had drained dry.    And   in the    2nd month, on the    27th  day of the month, the earth had dried off.    God   now spoke to Noah, saying -- "Go  out of the ark, you and your wife  and your  sons and yours sons' wives with you.    Every living creature that is 

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 with you every sort of flesh, among the flying creatures and among the beasts and among all the moving animals that move upon the earth, bring out with you, as they swarm in the earth and be fruitful and become many upon the  earth."  At  that  Noah went out, and also his sons and his wife and sons' wives with him.    Every living creature, every moving animal and every flying creature, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families they went out of the ark.      And Noah began to build an altar to God and to take some of all the clean beasts and of all the clean flying creatures and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar. And God began to smell a restful odor, and so God said in his heart -- "Never again, shall I call down evil upon the ground on man's account, because the inclination of heart of man is bad from his youth up -- and never again shall I deal every living thing a blow just as I have done. For all the days the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, will never cease."      9   And God went on to bless Noah and his sons and say to them -- "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth. And a fear of you and a terror of you will continue upon every living creature of the earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that goes  moving on the ground, and upon all the fishes of the sea.   Into your hand  they are now given.  Every moving animal that  is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you.   Only flesh with its soul --its blood -- you must not eat.   And, besides that, your blood of your souls shall I ask back.   From the hand of every living creature shall I ask it back -- and from the hand of man, from the hand of each one who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul of man.   Anyone shedding man's blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God's image HE made man.    And as for you men, be fruitful and become many,  make the earth swarm with you and become many in it."  And God went on to say to   Noah and his sons --  "As for me, here I am establishing   my covenant  with you men and with  your offspring after  you,  and with  every living soul  that is with  you,  and among fowls,  among beasts and among  all living  creatures  of the earth with  you,  from  all those going out of the  ark to every living creature of the earth.  Yes,  I do  establish  my  covenant  with you --No  more  will all flesh  be cut off by waters of a deluge,  and no more  will  there occur  a  deluge to bring  the earth  to ruin."    And  God  added --  "This  is  the sign  of   the covenant that I am giving between  me and you and every living  soul  that is with you,  for the generations to time  indefinite.   My rainbow  I do  give  in the cloud, and it must serve as a sign of the covenant between me and  the earth.   And it shall occur  when I am bring a  cloud over the earth,  the  rainbow will certainly  appear  in the cloud.   And I shall  certainly remember my covenant which  is between me and you  and every living soul among  all flesh  --  and  no more  will the waters become  a deluge go bring all flesh to ruin.   And  the rainbow must  occur     

in  the  cloud,  and  I shall  certainly  see it to  remember the  covenant to time  indefinite  between  God and every  living  soul  among  all flesh  that is upon  the  earth."   And  God repeated to  Noah --  "This  is the sign  of the covenant that I do  establish  between me and all flesh  that is upon  the earth."  And Noah's  sons  who  came  out the ark  were Shem  and Ham  and Japheth.   Later  Ham  was  the father  of Canaan.   These  3  were Noah's sons,  and from  these  was  all the earth's  population spread  abroad.    Now   Noah  started  off as a farmer and  proceeded to plant  a vineyard.   And he began  drinking  of the wine  and became  intoxicated,  and  so he  uncovered himself  in  the midst of his tent.   Later  Ham  the  father  of Canaan saw his father's nakedness and went  telling  it  to  his  2  brothers outside.    At  that Shem and Japheth  took  a mantle  and put  it upon  both  their  shoulders and walked in backwards.   Thus  they  covered  their father's nakedness,  while their faces were turned away,  and they did not see their father's nakedness.    Finally Noah awoke  from his wine and got to know   what his  youngest son had done to him.     At this he said  --  "Curse  be  Canaan.  Let him become the lowest slave to his brothers."  And he added  -- "Bless be God, Shem's God, and let Canaan become a slave to him.   Let  God  grant ample space to  Japheth,  And  let  him reside  in the tents  of Shem.   Let  Canaan  become  a slave to him  also.    And  Noah continued to  live  350 years after the deluge.    So  all the days  of Noah  amounted  to  950  years old and then he died.        

10    And this is  the history of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.    Now  sons  began to  be born to  them  after the  deluge.   The sons of  Japheth were  Gomer and Magog  and Madai  and Javan  and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.    And  Sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togar-mah.    And sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. From these population  of the isles of the nations was spread about  in  their lands,  each  according to its  tongue,  according to their families by   their nations.   And  the sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim and Put and Canaan.  And  the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca.  And the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.  And  Cush  became father to Nimrod.  He made  the start  in becoming a mighty one  in the earth.   He  displayed  himself a mighty  hunter in opposition to God.   That is why there is a saying -- "Just like Nimrod, a mighty hunter  in opposition to God"  And beginning of his kingdom  came to be  Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh,  in the land of Shinar.    Out of that land he went  into Assyria and set himself  to building  Nineveh  

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and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah and Resen between  and Nineveh and Calah--this is the great city.    Mizraim became father to Ludim and Anamim and  Lehabim and Naphtuhim  and  Pathrusim and Casluhim  (from among whom the Philistines went forth)  and Caphtorim.     And Canaan became father to   Sidon his firstborn  and  Heth  and the Jebusite  and the Amorite and the  Girgashite, and  the Hivite and the Arkite and  the  Sinite  and the  Arvadite, and  the Zemarite  and the  Hamathite, and afterward  the  families of Canaan were scattered.       So  the boundary of Canaanite came to be from  Sidon  to Gerar near Gaza   to far as Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, near Lasha.  These were the sons of Ham according to their families, according  to their  tongues,  in their lands, by  their nations.     And to Shem,   the forefather of all the sons of Eber,  the  brother of Japheth the oldest,  there was also progeny born.   The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad  and  Lud   and Aram.  And the sons of Aram were Uz and Hul  and Gether and Mash.   And  Arpachshad was father of Shelah,  and Shelah   became  father of Eber.    And Eber  there were  sons  born.   The name of one was  Peleg, because in his days, the earth was divided --and the name of his brother  was  Joktan.    And Joktan became  father to Almodad   and  Sheleph  and  Hazarmaveth and Jerah  and  Hadoram  and Uzal  and  Diklah  and  Obal  and  Abimael  and  Sheba  Ophir  and   Havilah and  Jobab -- all these  were  the  sons of Joktan.  And  their  place of dwelling  came  to  extend from  Mesha  as  far  as Sephar,  the mountainous region in the East.    These were   the sons of Shem  according to their families, according to  their tongues, in  their lands,  according to their  nations.  These  were the families  of sons  Noah  according to their descents, by their nations were spread  about in  the earth after the   deluge.   

11  Now  all the earth   continued to be  one language  and of one  set of words.   And it came about  that in their journeying  eastward  they  eventually  discovered  a valley plain  in  the land of Shinar,   and they  took up  dwelling  there.   And they began to say,  each one  to the other --  "Come  on!  Let us make bricks and bake them  with  a burning  process"   So brick  served  as stone  for them,  but  bitumen served  as mortar for  them.    They now  said  --  "Come on!  Let  us build ourselves  a  city  and also a  tower   with its top  in  the  heavens, and let us  make a  celebrated name for ourselves, for fear  we may be scattered  all over the surface of the  earth."  God  proceeded to go down to see  the city and the tower and the sons of men  had built.   After that God said -- "Look!  They are one people and there is  one language what  they  start to do.   Why,  now  there is nothing that they may have in  mind to do that will be unattainable for them.    Come  now!   Let  us go down  and there confuse  language  that they  

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may not listen to one another's language."  Accordingly Jehovah   scattered them  from  there all over all the surface  of the  earth, and they gradually left building the city. This is why its  name was called  Babel, because  there  God had  confused the language of all the earth,  and  God had  scattered them  from  there over all the surface  of the earth. This is history of Shem -- Shem  was a 100 years old when he became father to  Arpachshad Shem  continued  to live 500 years.  Meanwhile  he  became father to sons and daughters.  And Arpachshad  lived 35 years.  Then he became father to Shelah.   And  after his  fathering  Shelah  Arpachshad  continued to live  403  years.   Meanwhile  he became  father to sons and daughters.   And Shelah  lived 30 years.  Then  he  became  father to  Eber.  And after his fathering  Eber Shelah  continued to live 403 years.   Meanwhile  he became father to sons and daughters.  And  Eber lived  on  for  34 years.  Then  he  became father to  Peleg.  and after fathering  Peleg Eber continued to live 430 years.   Meanwhile  he became father to sons  and daughters.   And  Peleg lived on for 30 years.  live. Then  he  became  father to Reu.  And after his fathering Reu Peleg continued to live 209 years.   Meanwhile  he became father to  sons and daughters.  And Reu lived  on for  32 years.   Then  he became  father to  Serug.    And  after  his  fathering  Serug  Reu  continued to  live 207 years.  Meanwhile  he  became  father  to sons  and daughters.    And Serug  lived on for  30 years.    Then  he became father to Nahor.   And after  his fathering  Nahor  Serug  continued to live for 200 years.   Meanwhile  he  became  father to  sons and daughters.   And Nahor  lived on  for 29 years.   Then he  became to  father to Terah.  And  after  his  fathering Terah  Nahor continued  to live a 119 years.    Meanwhile  he  became father to sons and daughters.  And Terah lived on for 70 years, after which he became father to Abram, Nahor and Haran.  And this is history of Terah.   Terah became father to  Abram,  Nahor and Haran -- and  Haran  became father to  Lot.    Later  Haran  died while  in company  with Terah his  father in the land of his birth,  in  Ur of the Chaldeans.   And  Abram  and  Nahor  proceeded  to  take wives  for themselves.  The  name  of  Abram's  wife  was  Sarai,  while  the name of Nahor's  wife was Milcah,  the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah  and father of Iscah.  But  Sarai continued to be barren,  she had no child.  After that Terah  took Abram  his son and Lot,  the son of Haran,  his  grandson,  and  Sarai  his  daughter  in law,  the wife of Abram  his son,  and they went with him  out of Ur of the Chaldeans  to go to the land of Canaan.  In time they  came to Haran  and took up  dwelling  there.  And the days  of Terah  came  to be 205  

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 years,  Then Terah died in Haran.          12   And God proceeded to say to Abram -- "Go your way out of your country and from your relatives and from the house of your father to the country that I shall show you -- and I shall make a great nation out of you and I shall bless you and I will make your name great -- and prove yourself a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who calls evil upon you I shall curse, and all the families of the ground will certainly bless themselves by means of you." At that Abram went just as God had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.    And Abram was 75 years old when he went out from Haran.    So Abram took his wife Sarai his wife and Lot the son of his brother and all the goods that they had accumulated and the souls whom they had acquired in Haran,  and they got on their way out  to go  the land of  Canaan.    And  Abram went  on through the land as  far as the site of Shechem,  near the big trees of Moreh --and at that  time the Canaanite was in the land.    God  appeared to Abram and said -- "To your seed   I am going  to give this land."     After that  he built an altar (holy table) to God who had appeared to him.    Later he  move  from there to   the  mountainous region  to the east of Bethel and pitched his  tent with Bethel on the west and Aion the east.  Then  he built an altar  there to God and  began  to call on the name of the Lord.   Afterward Abram  broke  camp  going them from encampment to encampment  toward Neg'eb.  Now  a  famine arose in the land and Abram made his way down toward Egypt to  reside  there as an alien,  because  the  famine  was severe in the land.   And it came about as soon as he  got near  to  entering Egypt,  then he said to Sarai his wife -- "Please,  now I  well know you are a woman beautiful in appearance.    So it is bound to happen that the Egyptians  will see  you and  will say, 'This is his wife'  and they will certainly kill me,  but you they will preserve alive.    Please say you are my sister,  in order that it may go well  with me on your account, and my soul will be certain to live due to you."    So  it happened   that, as  soon as Abram entered Egypt, the  Egyptians  got to see the woman,  that she was very beautiful.  And the princes of Pharaoh also  got to see her and they began praising her to Pharaoh,  so the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.   And they treated Abram well because of her account, and he came to have sheep and cattle and asses (donkeys)  and menservants and maidservants, and she-asses and  camels.   Then God  touched Pharaoh and his household with a great plagues because  of  Sarai,  Abraham's wife.    With  that  Pharaoh called Abram  and said -- "what have you done to me? Why did not  tell me that  she was your wife?  Why did  you say,  'She is my sister,'  so that I was about to take her as my wife?   And now here is your wife.  Take her and go!"  And  Pharaoh issued commands to men concerning him, and they  went escorting him and his wife and all that he had.     13  Following  that  Abram went up  out of  Egypt with all they had, and Lot with him, to the Negeb.     And Abram  was  heavily stocked  with herds and silver and gold.    And he  made  

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his way from encampment to encampment out of the Negeb and to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at 1st between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar that he had made originally -- and Abram proceeded to call there on the name of the Lord.   Now Lot who was going along with Abram, also owned sheep and cattle and tents. So the land did not allow for them to dwell all together, because their goods had become many and they were not able to dwell together.   And a quarrel arose between the herders of Abram's livestock -- and the herders of Lot's livestock -- and at the time Canaanite and Perizzite were dwelling in the land.    Hence Abram said to Lot -- "Please, do not let any quarreling continue between me and you and between my herdsmen, and your herdsmen, for we men are brothers! Is not the whole land available to you? Please, separate from me.     If you go to the left, then I will go to the right -- but if you go to the right-- then I will go to the left."   So  Lot raised his eyes and saw the whole District of Jordan, and all of it was well-watered region before God brought Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin, Like the garden of God, like the land of Egypt as far as Zoar.   Then Lot chose for himself whole District of Jordan, and Lot moved his camp to the east.    So they separated the one from the other.    Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, but Lot dwelt among the cities of the District.    Finally he pitched tent near Sodom.   And the men of Sodom were bad and were gross sinners against Jehovah.    Then God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him -- "Raise your eyes, please, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward to westward, because all of the land at which you are looking, to you and to your seed I am going to give it until time indefinite. And I will constitute your seed like the dust particles of the earth, so that, if a man could be able to count the dust particles of the earth, then your seed could be numbered. Get up, go about in the land through its length and through its breadth, because to you I am going to give it." So Abram continued to live in tents.     Later on he came and dwelt among the big trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron -- and there he proceeded to build an altar to the Lord.       14   Now it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlamer  king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim  that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and  Shemeber king of Zebhoiim,  and the king of Bela (that is to say, Zoar).    All these marched as allies to the Low Plain of Siddim, that is,  the Salt Sea.    12 years they had served Chedorlaomer, but  the 13th year they rebelled. And the 14th year Chedorlaomer  came, and also the kings who were with him,  and they inflicted defeats  on the Rephaim  in  Horites in Ashterothkarnaim,  and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shavehkiriathaim,  and their mountain of Seir,  down to Elparan,  which is at the  wilderness.    Then  they turned about  and came to  Enmishpat,  that is,  Kadesh,  and  defeated the whole field of  

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the Amalekites and  also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazontamar.   At this point the  king of Sodom went on  the march, and also the king of Gomorrah  and the king of Admah  and the king Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is to say, Zoar),  and they drew up in battle  order against them in low plains of Siddim, against Chedolaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king Ellasar -- 4 kings against the 5.   Now  the Low plain of Siddim was pits   upon pits  of bitumen --  and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah   took to flight and went falling into them,  and those who remained fled to the mountainous region.   Then the victors took all the goods of  Sodom and Gomorrah  and all their food and went on their way.  They also took Lot the son  of  Abram's brother  and his goods and continued on their way.   He was then dwelling  in Sodom.    After that a  man  who had escaped came and told  Abram the Hebrew.    He was then  tabermacling among the big trees  in Mamre the Amorite,   the brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner,  and they were confederates (partners)  of Abram.   Thus  Abram got to hear  that his brother  had been taken captive.   With that  he mustered his  trained men -- 318 slaves born his  household and   went in pursuit  up to Dan.   And by  night he  resorted to dividing his forces, he and his slaves, against them,  and  thus he defeated them and kept in  pursuit of  them up to Hobah, which is north of Damascus.     And he   proceeded to recover all the goods, and recovered also Lot his brother, and his goods and also women and the people.     Then the king of Sodom  went out to meet  him after he returned from defeating Chedolaomer and the kings   that were with him,   to the Low Plain of Shaveh,  that is,   the king's Low Plain.   And Melchizedek  king of Salem  brought out bread and  wine,  and he was a priest of Most High God.   Then he blessed him  and said -- " Blessed be Abram of the Most High God,  Producer  of heaven and earth -- And blessed  the Most High God, Who has delivered your oppressors into your hand!"     At that  Abram gave   him a  10th (1/10) of everything.   After that  the king of Sodom said to Abram -- "Give me the souls (people), but  take the goods for yourself." At this Abram  said to the king of Sodom -- "I  do lift up  my hand  in an  oath to God the Most High God,  Producer of heaven and earth, that, from a thread to a sandal lace, no,   I  shall take nothing from anything  that is yours,  in order that you may  not say,  'It was I who  made  Abram rich!   Nothing for me!   Only  what the young men already  eaten,  and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre -- let them have their share."         15    After  these things  the word of God came to Abram in a vision,  saying -- "Do not fear,  Abram.   I am a shield for you.   Your reward  will be very great."  At this Abram  said -- "Sovereign Lord God, what will you give me,  seeing  that I am  going childless and  the  one who will possess  my house is man of Damascus, Eliezer?"   And  Abram  added --"Look you have 

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given me no seed, and, look! a son of my household is succeeding me as heir?"    But, look! the word of God to him was in these words -- "This man will not succeed you as heir, but one who will come out of your own inward parts will succeed you as heir." He now brought him outside and said -- "Look up, please, to the heavens and count the stars, if you are possibly able to count them." And we went on to say to him -- "So your seed will become."   And he put faith in the Lord and proceeded to count it to him as righteousness. Then he added to him -- "I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take it in possession."   To this he said -- "Sovereign Lord  God, by what shall I know that I shall take it in possession?"   In turn he said to him -- "Take for me a 3 year old heifer and a 3 year old she-goat and a 3 year old ram and a turtle-dove and a young pigeon."     So he took all these to himself and cut them in 2 and put each part of them so as to match the other, but the birds he did not cut in pieces.     And the birds of prey began to descend upon the carcasses, but Abram kept driving them away.     After a while sun  was  about to set and  deep  sleep fell upon Abram, and, look!   frightfully great darkness  was falling  upon him.  And he began to say to  Abram -- "You may  know for sure that your  seed  will become an alien  resident  in a land not theirs,  and they  will have to serve them, and  they will certainly  afflict  them for  400 years.   But the  nation that they  will serve  I am judging  and after that they will go out with many goods.       As for  you,  you will go to your  forefathers   in peace --  you will be buried  at good old age.      But in  the 4th generation they will return here,  because  the  error of  the Amorites  has not yet  come  to completion."   The sun  was now  setting and a dense darkness came and, look!  a  smoking furnace and a fiery torch  that  passed in  between  these pieces.   On that day Lord concluded with Abram a covenant,  saying -- "To your  seed  I will give this land, from  the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates -- the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the  Kadmonites  and  Hittites  and the Perizzites and the Rephaim  and the  Amorites  and the  Canaanites  and the  Girgashites and the Jebusites."       16   Now  Sarai,  Abram's wife, had  borne to him no children -- but  she had an Egyptian maidservant and  her name  was  Hagar.     Hence Sarai said to Abram -- "Please now!   God has shut  me off from bearing children.   Please, have relations with my maidservant.  Perhaps I may get children from  her."    So  Abram listened  to the voice of Sarai.   Then  Sarai,  Abram's  wife,  took Hagar,  her Egyptian  maidservant,  at the end of 10 years of Abram's dwelling  in the land  of Canaan,  and gave her to  Abram  her husband  as his  wife.   Accordingly  he had relations with  Hagar,  and she became  pregnant.   When  she became  aware that she was  pregnant, then the mistress  began  to be despised  in her eyes.    At this  Sarai  said  to Abram -- "The violence done me be upon  you.  I myself gave  my maidservant over to your bosom,  and she became aware  that she  was pregnant,  and I began to be despised  in  her eyes.   May God  judge between me and you."  

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So Abram said to Sarai -- "Look!   your maidservant is at your disposal.   Do to her what is good in your eyes."     Then Sarai  began to  humiliate her so   that she ran away from  her.    Later the Lord  God's angel found her at  a fountain  of waters  in the wilderness,  at the fountain on the way to  Shur.   And he began to say -- "Hagar, maidservant to Sarai,  just where have you come from and where are you going?"   to this she said -- "Why  from Sarai my mistress  I am running  away."   And  God's angel went on to say  to her -- "Return to your mistress and  humble yourself under her hand."   Then  God's angel said to her -- "I shall greatly  multiply your  seed,  so that it  will be numbered (limited) for multitude (many)."  Further  God's angel added to her-- "Here you are pregnant, and  you shall give birth to a son and must call his name Ishmael -- for God has heard your  affliction.   As for  him,  he will become a zebra of a man.   His hand will be against everyone,   and the  hand of everyone  will be against him,  and  before  the face  of all of his brothers he will tabernacle.   Then she began to  call the name of the Lord, who  was speaking  to her  --  "You are a God of sight,"    for she said -- "Have I here actually looked upon  him who sees me?"    That is why the well was called Beerlahairoi.    Here  it is between  Kadesh and Bered.     Later on  Hagar bore to Abram a son  and Abram called the name of his son  whom  Hagar bore to Ishmael.  And Abram  was 86 years old  at Hagar's bearing  Ishmael to Abram.       17   When Abram  got to be 90 years old,  then  God appeared to Abram  and said  to him-- " I am God Almighty.    Walk before  me and prove yourself faultless.   And I will give my covenant (protection, relationship)  between me and you, that I may  multiply you very, very much."  At  this  Abram  fell upon  his face,  and God continued  to speak  with him,  saying -- "As for me, look!   my covenant is with you, and you  will certainly  become a father a crowd of  nations.   And your name will not be called  Abram  anymore,  and your  name must become  Abraham, because a father of  crowd  of nations I will make of you.   And I will make you very, very fruitful and make you  become nations,  and kings will come out of you.  "And  I will carry out my covenant between me and you and your seed  after you according to their  generations for a  covenant  to  time  indefinite,  to prove myself God to you and to your seed after you.     And I will give you and to  your seed after you the land of  your alien residences, even the entire Canaan,  for a  possession to time indefinite -- and I will prove myself God to them."   And God said further to  Abraham  --  "As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your seed after you  according to  your generations.    This is my covenant  that you men will keep, between me and you men,  even your seed after you --Every male of yours  must get circumcised.  And you must get circumcised  in the flesh of your foreskins and it must serve as sign of the  covenant between me and you. And every male of yours at  8 days  old must  be circumcised,  according to your  generations,  anyone born  in the house and anyone  purchased with money  from any  foreigner who is not from your seed.   Every man born in your house and  every man purchased  

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   with money of yours must without fail get circumcised -- and my covenant in the flesh of you men must serve as covenant to time indefinite.   And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people.  He has broken my covenant." And God went on to say --"As for Sarai your wife, you must not call her name Sarai, because Sarah is her name. And I will bless her and also give you a son from her -- and I will bless her and she shall become nations -- kings of people will come from her." At this Abraham fell upon his face and began to laugh and to say in his heart -- "Will a man 100 years old have a child born. and will Sarah, yes, will a woman 90 years old give birth?"    After that Abraham said to true God -- "O that Ishmael might live  before you!"   To this  God said -- "Sarah  your wife  is indeed  bearing you a son,  and must call his name  Isaac.     And  I will establish my covenant with him for  a covenant to time indefinite to his seed  after him.   But  as regards Ishamel I  have heard  you.  Look!  I will bless him and  will make him  fruitful  and will multiply him  very,  very  much.    He  will  certainly will produce 12 chieftains (princes),  and I will make him become a great nation.     However,  my covenant  I shall establish with Isaac,  whom Sarah will  bear to you at this appointed  time next year."   With  that  God  finished speaking with  him and went up from  Abraham.    Abraham  then proceeded to take Ishmael his son  and all the men born in his son  and  all the men  born in his house and  everyone purchased  with  money  of his,  of every male  among the men of the household of  Abraham  and he went  to circumcising  the flesh  of their foreskins in this very day,   just as God  had spoken  with him.   And  Abraham was 99 years old  when  he had the flesh of his foreskin  circumcised.    And Ishmael his son  was  13 years old when he had  the flesh of his foreskins circumcised.   In this very day Abraham  got circumcised, and also Ishmael  his son.   And  all the  men of his  household,  anyone born in the house and anyone  purchased  with money from  a foreigner,  got circumcised with him.        18  Afterward God  appeared  to him among  the big trees  of Mamre, while he was sitting  at the  entrance  of the tent about  the heat  of the day.     When he raised  his eyes,  then  he looked  and there  3 men  were standing  some distance  from him.  When  he caught  a sight of them  he began running  to meet them  from the entrance of the tent and proceeded  to bow down to the earth.   Then he  said -- "Lord, if, now, I  have found  favor in your eyes, please do  not pass by your servant.    Let a  little water be taken, please, and you must have your feet washed.    Then  recline under the tree.   And  let me get  a piece of  bread, and  refresh  your hearts.    Following that,  you can pass on, because that is why you have passed  this way to your  servant."    At  this  they said --  "All right.   You  may do  just as you have spoken."    So  Abraham  went  hurrying  to the tent  to Sarah  and said -- "Hurry!   Get 3  seah (1 seah = 7.33 liters, so 3 seah is 21.99 liters) measure of fine flour, knead the dough and bake round cakes."     Next Abraham  ran  to the herd and proceeded to get a tender  and good young bull   and to give  it to  the attendant,  and he went hurrying  to get  it ready.   He

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then took butter and milk and  the young bull  that he had got ready and set it before them.  Then he himself kept standing by them  under the tree as they were eating.     They now said to him -- "Where is Sarah  your wife?"   To this he said -- "Here in the tent!"   So he continued -- "I am surely going  to return to you next year at this time, and, look!  Sarah your wife will have a son."   Now  Sarah was listening at the tent entrance, and it was behind the man.  And Abraham and Sarah were old, being advanced in years.   Sarah had stopped having  menstruation.   Hence  Sarah began to  laugh inside herself, saying -- "After I am  worn out,  shall I really have pleasure, my  lord being old besides?"    Then God   said to Abraham -- "Why  was that Sarah  laughed,  saying, 'Shall I  really and truly give birth  although I have become old?'     Is anything too  extraordinary for Jehovah?    At the appointed  time  I shall return to you,  next year at this  time,  and Sarah will have a son."  But Sarah  began to deny it,  and saying --"I did not laugh!"    For she was afraid.     At this he said, "No!  But you did laugh."      Later the men got up  from there and  looked down toward Sodom, and  Abraham  was walking with them  to escort them.    And    God  said -- "Am I keeping  covered  from Abraham what I am doing?    Why, Abram is surely going to become a  nation great and mighty,  and all the nations of the earth must bless  themselves by means of him.   For I have become acquainted  with him in order that he may  command  his sons and his household  after him so that they shall  keep Lord's way to do righteousness and judgment -- in order that Lord may certainly bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about  him."   Consequently  the Lord  God said -- "The cry and complaint  about Sodom and Gomorrah,  yes,  it is  loud, and their sin,  yes, it is very  heavy.   I  am quite determined  to go down that   I may see  whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it  that has come to me,  if not,  I  can get to know it."  At this  point  the men turned  from there and got on their way to Sodom  -- but as for  God, he was still standing before Abraham.   Then  Abraham approached and  began to say -- "Will  you really sweep away the righteous with the  wicked?   Suppose there are 50 righteous men in the midst of the  city.  Will you,  then, sweep away  the righteous  with the wicked?   Will you, then, sweep them away  and not  pardon the place for the sake of  the  50 righteous who  are  inside  it?    It is unthinkable of you that you are acting  in manner to put to  death the righteous man with the wicked one  so that it has to occur with  the righteous man  as it does with the wicked!    It  is unthinkable of you.   Is the Judge of all  the earth not going to do what  is  right?"   Then  Lord  said -- "I  shall  find in Sodom  50 righteous men  in midst of the city I will pardon the whole place on their account."   But Abraham went to answer and say -- "Please, I have taken upon myself  to speak to God, whereas I am dust and ashes.    Suppose 50 righteous should be lacking  5.   Will you for the 5, bring the whole city to ruin?  To this he said -- "I shall not bring it  to ruin if I find there 45."  But  yet  again he spoke further to him and said -- "Suppose 40 are found there?"   In  turn he said -- "I shall not do it on account of the 40."    But he continued -- "May God, please, not  

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 grow hot with  anger,  but  let me  go on speaking.    Suppose 30 are found there."     In turn he said -- "I  shall  not do it if I find 30 there."  But he  continued on -- "Please,  here I  have  taken  upon  myself  to speak to Jehovah -- Suppose  20 are found there."    In turn he said -- "I shall  not bring  it to ruin on account of 20."   Finally  he  said --"May God, please,  not grow  hot with  anger,  but  let me speak just this once  -- Suppose  10 are found there."   In turn he said -- "I shall not  bring  it to ruin on account  of the 10."    Then Jehovah went his way when   he finished speaking  to Abraham,  and Abraham returned to his place.       19    Now the 2  angels arrived at Sodom  by evening,  and Lot was  sitting  in the gate of Sodom.   When  Lot caught  sight  of them,  then  he got up to meet  them and bowed down  with his face to the earth.   And  he proceeded to say -- "Please,  now,  my  lords,  turn aside,  please,  into  to the house of your servant and stay overnight and have your feet washed.   Then you must  get up  early and  travel on your way."    To this they said -- "No, but in the public square   is where we  shall  stay overnight."    But  he  was  very insistent with them,  so that they  turned aside  to him and came into  his house.  Then  he made  a feast for them,  and  he  baked  unfermented cakes,  and they  went to eating.      Before  they  could  lie  down,  the men of the city, the men of Sodom,  surrounded the house,  from  boy to old man,  all the people in one mob.    And  they kept calling  out to Lot  and saying  to him -- "Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us  that we may have interc*urse  with them."   Finally   Lot went out to  the entrance,   but he shut  the door behind him.    Then he said -- "Please, my brothers, do not act badly.    Please, here  I have 2 daughters who never had interc*urse (virgins) with a man.  Please,  let  me bring them  out to you.   Then  do to them  as is  good  in your eyes.    Only  to  these men do  not do a thing,   because that  is  why they have come  under my roof."       At this they said -- "Stand back there!"   And they  added -- "This lone man here to reside  as an  alien  and  yet he would  actually play the judge!     Now we  are going to  do worse to you than  to them."    And  they  came  pressing heavily in on the man,  on Lot,  and were  getting  near to  break  in  the door. So the men  thrusted  out their hands and brought Lot in  to them,  into the house,  and they  shut the door.     But  they struck with  blindness  the  men  who  were at the entrance of the  house,  from the least  to the greatest,  so  that they were  wearing themselves out trying to  find the entrance.    Then  the  men said to Lot -- "Do you have anyone else here?   Sons-in-law and your sons and your daughters and all who are  yours  in the city,  bring  out the place!    For we  are bringing this place to ruin,  because  the outcry against them  has grown  loud  before God,  so that Jehovah   sent us  to  bring city  to ruin."      Hence  Lot  went  on out and began  to speak to his sons-in-law  who  were to take his daughters and kept on  saying -- "Get up!    Get  out of  this place,  because  God  is bringing the  city to ruin!"      But in  the eyes of his sons-in-law  he seemed like  a man who was joking.     However,  when the dawn  ascended,  then the angels  became  urgent with Lot,  saying -- "Get  up!  Take  your wife and your  2  daughters  who are found 

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   here,  for fear  you may be swept away  in the error  of the city!"   When  he kept lingering,  then in  the  compassion  of God upon  him,  the  men seized hold of his hand and of the hand of his  wife and of the hands  of his  2 daughters and they proceeded to bring him out and to station  him outside the city.   And  it  came about that,  as soon as they  had  brought them  forth  to the  outskirts,  he began  to say -- "Escape for your soul!"    Do  not  look  behind you and do not stand still in all the District!   Escape  to the mountainous  region  for fear you may  be swept away!"   Then  Lot said to them -- "Not that,  please,  God!  Please,  now, your servant has found favor  in  your eyes,  so that you are magnifying your  loving kindness, which  you have exercised  with  me to preserve my soul alive,  but I - I  am not able  to escape  to the mountainous  region for fear  calamity  may  keep close to me and I certainly  die.   Please,  now,  this  city  is  nearby  to flee there and it  is a small thing.   May  I, please  escape  there -- is it not  a small thing? --  and my  soul  will live on."     So  he said to him  -- "Here  I do  show  you  consideration  to this  extent  also,  by my not overthrowing  the city  of  which you have spoken.    Hurry!   Escape  there,  because  I am  not able to do a thing  until  your arriving  there!"    That  is why he called the name of the city  Zoar.   The sun had gone forth over the  land when Lot  arrived  at Zoar.   Then God  made  it rain  sulphur and fire from  God,  from  the heavens, upon  Sodom and upon  Gomorrah.    So he went  ahead overthrowing these cities, even the entire District  and all the inhabitants  of the cities and the plants of the ground.    And  his wife  began to look around from behind  him,  and she  became  a  pillar of salt.      Now Abraham  made his way  early in the morning  to the  place where  he had stood  before God.  Then he  looked  down  toward  all the land of the  District and saw  a sight.   Why,  here  thick  smoke  ascended  from the  land  like the thick  smoke  of a kiln!  And it came about that when  God  brought  the cities of  District to ruin God kept  Abraham  in  mind  in  that  he took steps  to send  Lot  out of the midst  of the overthrow  when  overthrowing  the cities  among  which  Lot  had been dwelling.    Later  Lot went  up  from Zoar  and began  dwelling in  the mountainous  region,  and his  2  daughters  along  with him,  because  he got afraid  of dwelling  in  Zoar.   So  he began  dwelling  in  a cave, he and his  2  daughters.  And the 1st  born  proceeded  to say  to the younger  woman  --  "Our father is old and there  is not a man  in the land  to have relations  with us according  to  the way of the whole earth.   Come, let us  give father wine to drink  and let us lie down  with him and preserve offspring  from our father."   So they kept giving their father wine to drink during  that night --  then  the  1stborn   went  in and and lay  down  with her father,  but he did not know when she lay  down and when she got up.    And it came about  on  the next  day  that the  1stborn  then said to the younger  -- "Here  I  lay down with  my father  last night.    Let us give him  wine  to drink  tonight also.   Then  you go in,  lie down with him,  and let us  preserve   offspring from  our father."   So  they  repeatedly gave their  father wine  to drink  during  that 

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night  also --  then  the younger  got up  and lay  down  with him, but  he did  not  know  when she lay down and she got up.     And  both the daughters of  Lot  became  pregnant from their own father.   In time  the 1stborn became  mother to a son   and called his name Moab,  to this day.    As  for the younger,  she  too gave birth  to a son  and  then  called  his name  Benammi.    He is  the  father of the sons of Ammon, to this day.         20   Now Abraham   moved camp  from there to  the land  of  the  Negeb and   took up dwelling between Kadesh and Shur and  residing  as  an alien at Gerar.   And  Abraham  repeated concerning   Sarah  his  wife -- ""She  is  my sister that  Abimelech  in  a dream  by  night and said  to  him -- "Here  you  are as  good  as  dead  because of the woman   whom  you  have  taken,  since she  is  owned by  another owner  as his wife."   However,  Abimelech  had  not  gone  near her.  Hence he said  -- "God,  will you  kill  a nation did not go near her, so he said to God, "Jehovah, will you kill a nation  that is really  righteous?      Did  not  say to me, 'She is my sister?'   and  she  --  did  not  too  say,   'He is  my brother'?  In  the honesty  of my heart  and with  innocency  of my hands I have done this."   At that the  true God  said to him  in  the dream -- "I too  have  known  that  in  the honesty  of  your  heart you have done this,  and I was also  holding you back from sinning against me.   That  is why I did not allow you to touch her.     But  now return the man's wife,   for he  is  a prophet,  and  he will make  supplication (beg, entreaty, plea) for you.   So  keep  living.    But  if you  are not  returning her,  know that you will positively  die,  you  and all who  are yours."  So  Abimelech   got up  early  in the morning  and  proceeded  to  call all his  servants  and  to speak  of all these things  in their ears.   And  the  men  got  very much  afraid.   Then  Abimelech  called  Abraham and said to him  -- "What have you done to us,  and what  sin  have  I  committed  against you,  in  that you  have brought upon me and my kingdom, a great sin?    Deeds  that should  not have been done  you have done in  connection with me."   And Abimelech  went on to say  to Abraham --  "What did you  have  in view  in  that you  have done this thing?"   To  this  Abraham  said -- "It  was because  I said to myself,   'Doubtless  there is no  fear of God  in this place,  and they will certainly will kill  me because of my wife."     And  besides,  she is truly  my sister,  the daughter of my father -- only  not the daughter of my mother,  and she became my wife.    And   it came about  that,  when  God caused me to wander  from the house of my father,  then  I said to her,  'This is your loving kindness  which  you  may  exercise  toward me --  At  every  place  where we shall  come  say  of me  -- "He is my brother."'"   Following  that  Abimelech  took  sheep and cattle and menservants  and maidservants  and gave them to Abraham  and returned  to him  Sarah  his wife.   Further  Abimelech  said -- "Here my land is available to you.   Dwell  where  good it is  in  your eyes."     And to Sarah  he said -- "Here I  do give a 1,000 silver pieces of money to your brother.    Here it is for you a covering  of the eyes to all who  are  with you,  and before everybody,  and you  are cleared  of  reproach."    And Abraham   began to  make supplication  to the  true God -- and God  proceeded to heal   Abimelech  and  his  wife and his slave girl,   and they 

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  began  bearing children.   For  God  had tightly shut up every womb of  the house of  Abimelech  because of Sarah,   Abraham's wife.          21   And  Lord turned his attention  to Sarah  just as he said,  and  God now did to Sarah  just as he had spoken.   And  Sarah became pregnant and then bore  a son  to Abraham  in  his old age at the appointed  time of which  God had spoken of him.    According  Abraham  called the name of his son who had been borne  to him,  Isaac.   And  Abraham proceeded to  circumcise  Isaac  his son when  8 days old,  just as God had commanded him.    And Abraham  was a 100 years old when Isaac  his son was born to him.  Then Sarah  said -- "God has prepared a laughter for me -- everybody  hearing of it  will laugh at me."     And  she added --  "Who would have  uttered to Abraham,  'Sarah  will certainly  suckle (nurse) children,'  whereas  I have given  birth   to a son  in his old age!"      Now  the child kept growing and  came to be weaned -- And Abraham then  prepared  a big feast  on the day of Isaac's  being weaned.  And  Sarah kept noticing the  son of Hagar  the Egyptian,  whom she  had borne  to Abraham,  poking him.   So  she began  to say to  Abraham,  poking fun.  So she began  to say to Abraham -- "Drive  out his slave girl and her son, for the son  this slave girl is not going to be heir with my son, with Isaac!"   But the thing proved to be  very displeasing  to Abraham  as regards his son.     Then  God said to Abraham -- "Do  not let anything  that  Sarah  keeps  saying  to you be displeasing  to you about the boy and  about  the slave girl.   Listen  to her voice,  because it is by means of Isaac that what will be  called your seed will be.    And  as for the son  of the slave girl, I shall also  constitute a nation, because  he  is your offspring."    So  Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and skin water bottle and  gave it to Hagar, set it  upon her shoulder, and the child, and then dismissed  her.  And she went her way  and  wandered about  in the wilderness  of Beersheba.  Finally the water  became exhausted    in  the skin bottle and she threw  the child  under the one of  bushes. Then she  went on  and sat down by herself, about the distance  of a bowshot  away, because she said -- "Let me not see  it  when  the child dies."    So  she sat down  at a distance and began to raise her voice and  weep.     At that God  heard the voice of  the boy,  and God's angel called  to Hagar  out of the heavens and said to her, "What is the matter with you,  Hagar?    Do  not  be afraid,  because God has listened to the  voice  of the boy there where he is.    Get up, lift  up the boy  and take  hold of him  with your hand, because I shall  constitute him  a  great nation."      Then  God opened  her  eyes so  that she caught sight  of a  well of water -- and she went  and began to fill the skin bottle with water and give the boy a drink.     And God continued to be with the boy,  and he kept growing  and dwelling in  the wilderness --  and he became an archer.    And he  took up  dwelling in the wilderness of Paran,   and his  mother proceeded to take a wife for him  from the land of Egypt.     Now  it  came about that time, Abimelech together with Phicol  the chief of his army said to Abraham -- "God is with you in everything  you are doing.     So now swear to me  here  by  

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 God that you will not prove false  to me and  to my offspring and to my posterity (future generations) -- that, according to loyal love with  which I have dealt  with you, you will  deal with  me  and with  the  land  in which  you have been residing  as an alien."   So   Abraham said -- "I shall swear."   When Abraham criticized Abimelech severely  as regards the well of water that  the servants of Abimelech  had seized  by violence,  then Abimelech  said -- "I  do  not know  who did this thing, neither did you or yourself  tell it to  me,  and  I myself  have not heard of it  except today."   With  that Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech,  and both of them proceeded to conclude a  covenant.   When Abraham  set  7  female  lambs  of the flock by themselves,  Abimelech  went on to say to Abraham -- "What  is the meaning here of these 7  female  lambs that you have set by themselves?"    Then  he said  --  "You are to accept the  7  females lambs at  my hand,  that it  may  serve as  witness for me that I have dug this well."    That  is why he called that place Beersheba, because there  both of them  had taken an oath.     So   they  concluded  a covenant at Beersheba,  after  which Abimelech   got up together with Philcol the chief of his army  returned to  the land of the Philistines.     After  that he planted  a tamarsik  tree  at Beersheba and  called there upon the name of God   the indefinite lasting  God.   And Abraham  extended  his  residence as an  alien  in the land of  the Philistines many days.       22    Now after these things  it came about that the true God put Abraham to the test.   Accordingly he said to him-- "Abraham!"  to  which  he said -- "Here I am."      And he went  on to say -- "Take, please, your son,  your  only son whom you so love,  Isaac,  and make a trip to  land  of  Moriah and  there offer him  up  as  a burnt offering on one of the mountains  that I shall  designate to you."     So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his  ass  and took 2  of his attendants  with him  and Isaac his son --  and  he split the wood for burnt offering.   Then  he rose and went on the trip to the  place that the true God designated  to him.    It was 1st  on the 3rd day  that Abraham  raised  his eyes and began to see the place from a distance.   Abraham  now  said  to his  2 attendants  --  "You  stay  here with the ass,  but  I and  the boy want  to go on there and worship and return to you."    After that   Abraham  took the wood  of the burnt offering and put in on  Isaac  his son  and took  in  his hands  the fire and slaughtering  knife,  and both of them went on together.   And Isaac began to say  to Abraham  his father --  "My father!"    In return  he said -- "Here I am, my son!"    So  he continued -- "Here are the fire and the wood,  but  where  is  the sheep  for the burnt offering?"    To  this Abraham  said -- "God will provide  himself  the sheep for the burnt offering, my son."    And both of them walked together.      Finally they reached  the place that  the true  God had  designated to him, and Abraham built an altar there and set the wood  in order  and bound  Isaac his son  hand  and foot and  put him upon the altar on top of the wood.    Then Abraham put out his hand and took  the slaughtering knife  to kill his son.    But   God's angels calling  to him out of the  

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 heavens and saying --"Abraham, Abraham!"   to which he answered --  

"Here I am!"  And  he went on to say  --"Do  not put out your hands against the boy  and do not do anything at all to him,  for now I do know that you are God-fearing  in that you have not withheld your son, your only one,   from me."   At  that Abraham  raised his eyes and looked and there, deep in the foreground  was ram caught by its horns in a thicket.   So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering in place of his son.  And  Abraham  began to call the name of that place Jehovahjireh.   This  is  why it is  customarily said today -- "In the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided."     And  Jehovah's Angel proceeded to call  to Abraham   the 2nd  time out of the heavens and to say -- "'By myself I do swear,'   is the utterance  of God, that by the reason of the fact that you have done this thing, you have not withheld your son, your only one.    I shall surely bless you and shall  certainly multiply your offspringas many as stars in the sky and sands on  the shore and your  seed like the stars  of the heavens and like the grains of sand  that are on the seashore --  and your seed will  take possession of the  gate of  his enemies.     And by means  of your seed all nations  of the earth will certainly  bless themselves  due to the fact that you have listened to my  voice.'"   After that Abraham  returned to his  attendants,  and they  got up  and went their way  together to  Beersheba --  and Abraham continued to  dwell  at Beersheba.   Now it came about after these things that the report got through to Abraham -- "Here Milcah herself has also borne sons to  Nahor  your brother -- Uz  his 1st born and  Buz his  brother and Kemuel  the father of Aram, and Chesed and Hazo  and Pildash  and  Jidlaph and  Bethuel."   And  Bethuel became father  of Rebekah.   These  8   Milcah bore to Nahor the brother of Abraham.      There was  his concubine too, whose name was Reumah.   In time she herself also  gave birth to Tebah and   Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.      23   And Sarah's  life got  to be a 127 years  long.   They were the years  of Sarah's life.   So  Sarah died in  Kiriatharba, that is to say,  Hebron,  in the land of Canaan,  and Abraham came in  to bewail Sarah  and to weep over her.   Then Abraham got up  from  before his dead and proceeded to  speak to the sons of Heth, saying -- "An alien resident and settler I am among you.  Give me the possession  of a  burial place among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."     At this the sons of Heth  answered Abraham, saying to him-- "Hear us, my lord,  a chieftain of  God you are in the midst of us.   In  the choicest of our burial places bury your dead.   None  of us will  hold back his burial place from  you to prevent burying your dead."     Thereupon  Abraham got up and bowed down  to the natives,  to the sons of Heth,  and spoke with them,  saying -- "If  your souls agree to bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me and  urge Ephron the son of  Zohar  for me,  that  he may give me the cave of Machpelah,  which is his,  which is at the extremity of his field.  For the full amount of silver  let him give it to me in the midst of you for the possession  of a burial place."  As it was, Ephron  was sitting among the sons of Heth.  So  Ephron the Hittite answered  Abraham  in  the hearing of  the   

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sons of Heth  with all  those entering the gate of his city, saying --"No,   my lord!  Listen to me.  The field  I do give to  you, and the cave  that is  in it to you  I do give it.  Before  the eyes of the sons of my people  I do  give it to you.   Bury your dead."    At that Abraham  bowed down before the natives,  and spoke to Ephron  in the hearing of the natives,  saying -- "Only if you --  no, listen to me!  I will give  you the amount  of silver for the field.   Take it from  me,  that I  may bury my dead there."     Then  Ephron answered  Abraham, saying to him -- "My lord, listen to me.    A  land plot worth 400 shekels, what is that between me and you?   So bury your dead."  Accordingly Abraham listened to Ephron and Abraham weighed out to Ephron  the amount of silver that he had spoken in the hearing of the sons of Heth,   400  silver  shekels  current with the merchants.    Thus the field of Ephron that was Machpelah,  which  is in  front of Mamre, the field and  the cave that was  in it  and  all the trees  that were in the field, which  were within all its boundaries round  about, became  confirmed  to Abraham  as his purchased  property  before the eyes of the sons  of Heth among  all those entering the gate of his city.    And after that  Abraham  buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of   Machpelah in front of Mamre,  that is to say, Hebron, in the land of  Canaan.   Thus  the field and the cave that was in it became  confirmed to  Abraham for the possession  of  a  burial place at the hands of the sons  of  Heth.       24   Now Abraham was old, advanced in years --  and   God had blessed him in everything.     Hence  Abraham said to his  servant, oldest one  of his  household,  who was managing all he had --  "Put  your hand, please, under my thigh,  as I must have you  swear  by God, the Lord of the heavens and  the God of the earth,  that you will not take  a wife  for my son from the  daughters of the Canaanites in among  whom I  am dwelling,  but you will go to my country  and to my relatives,  and  you will certainly  take a wife for my son, for Isaac."   However, the servant said to him -- "What  if the woman  does  not wish  to  come with me to this  land?   Must I  be sure to return  your son to the land  from  where  you   went out?"  At this Abraham  said to him --  "Be on your guard that you do  not return my son there.  God  the Lord  of the heavens,  who took me from my  father's  house  and from the land of my relatives and who  spoke  to me  and who swore to me, saying -- 'To  your seed I am  going to give this land,'  he will send his angel  ahead of you, and you will certainly  take a  wife for  my son from there.     But  if the woman should not wish  to come with you,  you also will have become  is free from this oath  you gave me.  Only you must not return my son there.'"   With that the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning  this matter.     So the  servant took 10 camels  from  the  camels of his master and  proceeded to go with every sort of good thing of  his master's  in his hand.   Then he rose and  got on his way to Mesopotamia  to the city of Nahor.     Eventually, he had the camels kneel down outside the city at  a  well  of water about evening  time, about the time  that the women who  draw water  were accustomed  to go out.     And      

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he went on to say -- "God the Lord of my master Abraham, cause it to happen, please, before me this day and perform loving kindness with my master Abraham.   Here I am stationed at a fountain of water, and the  daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.  What must occur is that the young woman to whom I shall say -- 'Let water jar down, please, that I may take a drink,' and who will indeed say -- 'Take a drink,  and I shall also water your camels'  this is the one you must assign to your servant, to Isaac -- and by this let me know that you have performed loyal love with my master." Well, it came about that before he had finished speaking, why, here coming out was Rebekah, who had been born to Bethuel the son of Milcah the wife Nahor,  Abraham's brother.   And her water jar was upon her shoulder.  Now the young woman was very attractive in appearance, a virgin, and no man had se*ual interc*urse  with her --  and  she made her way down to  fill  her water jar  and then came up.   At once the servant ran to meet her and said -- "Give  me,  please, a  little sip of  water from your jar."   In turn she said -- "Drink,  my lord."   With  that  she quickly lowered her jar  upon her hand and gave him a drink.     When she was finished giving him a drink,  then she said --  "For your camels too  I  shall draw water  until they are  done drinking."    So she quickly emptied her jar into a trough and ran  yet again and again to the well to draw water,  and kept drawing for all of his camels.    All the while the man gazing at  her in wonder,  keeping silent to know whether  God had made his trip  successful or not.    Consequently  it came about that, when the camels had  finished drinking,   then  the man took a gold nose ring of  1/2 shekel in  weight and  2 bracelets for her hands,  10 shekels of gold was their  weight,  and  he went on to say -- "Whose daughter are you?    Tell me, please.    Is  there any  room at the house of your father  for us  to spend the night?"   At that she  said  to him  -- "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom  she bore him to Nahor."     And she said further to him -- "There is both straw and much fodder  with us, also a place to spend the night."   And the man proceeded to bow down and prostrate (lay face down on the ground his arms stretched out by his sides) before God and say --  "Blessed be Jehovah  the God of my master Abraham, who has not left loving-kindness and  his  trustworthiness toward my master.    I being on the way,  God has led me to  the house of the brothers of my master."  And young woman  went running and telling the  household  of her mother about  these things.    Now Rebekah had a brother and his  name was  Laban.  So  Laban  went running to the man who was outside at the fountain.    And it came about that on seeing  the nose ring and the bracelets  on the hands of sister and on hearing the words of Rebekah his sister saying-- "This  was the way the man spoke to me,"   then he came to the man  and there he was, standing by the camels  at the fountain.  At once  he said --"Come, you  blessed one of God.  Why  do you keep standing out here,   when I myself  had  made the house ready and room for the camels?"     With that the man came  on into the house,  and he went  unharnessed the camels and giving   straw and fodder  to the camels and water   

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 to wash his feet  and the feet of men who were with him.     Then  something to eat was set before  him, but he he said -- "I  shall not eat until I have spoken about my matters."   Hence  he said -- "Speak!"    Then he went on to say -- "I am Abraham's servant.   And God has  blessed  my master very much in that  he goes  on making him greater and  giving him  sheep and cattle and silver and gold and menservants and maidservants and  camels and  asses.    Further,  Sarah the wife of my master bore  a son to my master after her growing old -- and he will give him everything he has.  So my master made  me  swear,  saying -- 'You must not take  a wife for my   son from the daughters of  the Canaanites  in whose land I am dwelling.  No,  but you will go to the house of my father and to my family  and you must take a wife for my son.'   But  I  said to my master, 'What if  the woman will not  come with me?'   Then he said to me -- 'Jehovah, before whom I have walked, will  send his angel with you  and  will certainly  give  success to your way  --  and you must take a wife for my son  from my family  and from the house of my  father.  At that time you will be cleared of  obligation  to me by  oath when you get to my  family,  and if  they will  not give her to you, then you shall become  free of  obligation  to me by oath.'    "When  I got to the fountain today, then I said -- 'God the Jehovah of my master Abraham,  if you  are really giving success to my way  on which  I am going,  here I am stationed at a fountain  of water.  What must occur is that the maiden  coming out to  draw water to whom I shall actually say -- "Please, let  me drink a little water from your  jar,"   and who will indeed say to  me -- "Both you take a drink, and  I shall  also draw water for your camels,'  she is the woman  whom  God has  assigned for the son of my master.'   "Before  I was   finished speaking in my heart, why,  there was  Rebekah  coming out,  with her jar upon her  shoulder --  and she made her way down to the  fountain and began to draw water.  Then  I said to her -- 'Give me a drink, please.'   So she  quickly  lowered her jar from off her and said -- 'Take a drink, and I shall also water your camels.'  Then  I took  a drink, and she also  watered  the camels.  After  that I asked her and said -- 'Whose daughter are you?' to which she said --  'The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor,  whom Milcah bore to him.'   Accordingly  I put  the nose ring on her nostril and bracelets on her  hands.  And  I  proceeded  to bow down and prostrate  myself   before  God and bless God the Lord of my master Abraham,  who had  led me to  in the true way  to take  the daughter of the brother of my master for his son.    And  now  if you are  actually exercising loving-kindness and trustworthiness  toward  my master, tell me, but if not,  tell me, that I  turn to the right hand   or to the left."   Then  Laban  and Bethuel   answered  and said --"From  God  this thing has  issued.  We  are unable to speak  bad or good to you.   Here is Rebekah  before you.  Take her and go, and  let her  become a wife  to the son  of your master,  just as God has spoken."    And  it came about that when  Abraham's  servant had heared their  words,  he at once prostrated himself on the earth  before God.   And   the servant  began  to bring  out articles of   silver and articles of gold and garments and  to give  them to  Rebekah -- and he gave

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   choice things  to  her brother  and her mother.  After that they ate and  drank,  he and the  men who were  with  him,  and they spent  the night there and got up in the morning.    Then he said -- "Send me  off to my  master."      To  this her brother and her mother said -- "Let the young  woman stay with us  at least 10 days.  Afterward  she can go"     But he  said to  them -- "Do  not  detain me,  seeing that  God has given success  to my way.  Send me off,  that  I may go  to my master."      So they said --"Let us  call the young woman and inquire at  her mouth."    Then  they called Rebekah  and said  to her -- "Will  you go with this man?"   In turn she said -- "I am willing to  go."       At that  they sent off Rebekah  their sister   and her nurse and  Abraham's servant  and his men.   And they began to bless Rebekah and say to her, "O You, our sister, may you become 1,000  X 10,000 and let your seed take possession of the gate of those who hate it."     After that  Rebekah and  her lady attendants  rose and they went riding on the camels  and  following the man -- and  the servant took Rebekah and got on their  way.       Now Isaac  had  come from the way  that  goes to Beerlahairoi,   for  he was  dwelling in the land of Negeb.   And Isaac was out walking   in order to  meditate in  the field at about the falling  of evening.   When  he  raised  his eyes  and looked,  why, there  camels were   coming!     When Rebekah  raised her eyes,  she caught sight of  Isaac and she  swung herself down from off the camel.   Then  she said  to the servant -- "Who is that man there walking in the field to meet us?"   and the  servant   said -- "It is  my master."   And  she proceeded to take a headcloth and to  cover herself.     And the servant  went  relating  to Isaac  all the things he had  done.   After  that Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah, his mother.    Thus he took  Rebekah  and  she  became his wife --  and he fell in love with her,  and  Isaac found comfort after the loss of his mother.       25   Furthermore,   Abraham  again  took a wife, her name was Keturah.    In time she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.   And   Jokshan became father to Sheba and Dedan.     And the sons of Dedan became  Asshurim, Letushim, Leummim.     And  the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah.      All these were the sons of Keturah.   Later  on  Abraham gave everything he had to Isaac, but to the sons of  concubines  that  Abraham had Abraham  gave gifts.     Then he sent  them away from Isaac his son, while he was still alive,  eastward,  to the land of the East.    And these are the days  of the years  of Abraham's  life which he lived, 175 years.    Then Abraham expired and  died  in good old age,   old and satisfied,  and was gathered to his people.   So Isaac and Ishmael  his  sons  buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron the son of  Zohar the Hittite that is in front of Mamre, the field that  Abaham  had  purchased  from sons of Heth.    There Abraham was buried,  and also Sarah his wife.    And it developed that after Abraham's death  God   continued  to  bless Isaac his son, and Isaac 

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   was  dwelling  close by Beerlahairoi.    And  this  is the history of Ishmael   

the son  of Abraham  whom  Hagar  the Egyptian the  maidservant of Sarah   

bore to  Abraham.    Now these are the names of the sons of  Ishmael,  by their names, according  to  their  family  origins -- Ishmael's  1st  born Nebaioth  and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam  and Mishma  and Dumah  and  Massa,  Hadad and Tema,  Jetur,  Naphish and Kedemah.   These  are  the sons  of Ishmael, and these are the their names  by their courtyards and by their walled camps --  12  chieftains  according  to their  clans.  And   these are the years of Ishmael's life,  a 137 years.  Then he  expired  and died and was  gathered  to his people.  And  they took up  tabernacling from  Havilah near Shur,  which is in front of Egypt,  as  far as Assyria.  In front of all his brothers  he settled down.  And this is the history  of Isaac the son of Abraham.   Abraham became father to Isaac.   And Isaac  happened to be  40 years old  at  his taking Rebekah  the  daughter  of Bethuel  the Syrian of   Paddanaram,   the sister of Laban the Syrian, as his wife.    And  Isaac kept on entreating  Jehovah  especially for his wife,  because she was barren, so Jehovah  let  himself be entreated  for him, and  Rebekah  his wife  became pregnant.    And the sons within her began to  struggle   with each other, so   that she said -- "If  this is the way it is, just  why am I alive?"    With  that she  went to inquire of Jehovah.    And  God proceeded to say  to her -- "2  nations are in your belly,   and 2 national groups will be separated  from  your  inward  parts --  and the  one national group will be stronger than the other  national group, and the older  will serve the younger."    Gradually  her days came   to the full for giving birth, and,  look!  twins were in her belly.    Then  the 1st  came out red  all  over like an official garment of hair -- so  they  called his  name Esau.     And  after that his  brother  came out and  his hand was holding onto the heel of Esau, so  he  called  his  name Jacob.   And  Isaac was  60 years  old  at her  giving them  birth.   And  the boys  got bigger,  and Esau became a  man knowing  how  to hunt,  a  man of the field, but Jacob  a blameless  man,  dwelling  in tents.    And   Isaac  had   love for Esau, because it meant  game in his  mouth,  whereas Rebekah  was  lover  of  Jacob.   Once Jacob was  boiling  up some stew,  when Esau  came along  from the field and he was tired.    So  Esau said to Jacob -- "Quick,  please,  give me   a swallow  of the red -- the red there, for I am tired!"  That  is why  his name  was  called Edom.    To  this Jacob said -- "Sell me, 1st of all,  your rights as the 1stborn!"   And Esau continued -- "Here I am simply  going to die,  and  of what benefit to me is a birthright?"   And  Jacob added -- "Swear to  me  1st  of all!"   And  he proceeded to swear to him and  to sell  his  right  as  right  as 1stborn   to Jacob.   And Jacob gave Esau  bread  and lentil stew,  and he  went  eating and drinking.   Then he got up and  went  his way.    So Esau   despised the birthright.       26     Now there arose a famine in the land,  besides   the 1st famine that occurred  in the days  of Abraham,  so that Isaac directed  himself  to  Abimelech,

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    king  of the Philistines,  to Gerar.   Then God appeared  to him  and said -- "Do  not go down to Egypt.   Tabernacle in the land that I designated to you.  Reside as an alien  in this land,  and I shall continue with you and bless you, because to you and to your seed I shall give all these lands,   I  will carry out the sworn statement  which I swore to  Abraham  your father -- 'And multiply your seed like the stars  of the  heavens  and  I will  give to your seed all these lands -- and by means your  seed  all nations  of the earth  will certainly  bless themselves.'   due to the fact that  Abraham  listened to my voice and continued  to keep  his obligations to me, my commands, my  statutes, and my laws."   So Isaac went on dwelling in  Gerar.   Well,  the men of the place  kept asking with respect to his wife,  and  he would say-- "She is my sister"   For he was afraid to say "My wife"  for  fear that,  to quote him -- "the men of the place should kill me because  of Rebekah,"  because she was attractive in appearance.    So it came about that as his days  there extended  themselves Abimelech,  king of the Philistines,  was  looking out  the window and  taking in the sight,  and there was  Isaac having a good time with Rebekah.   At once Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Why, she is no  other than your wife!    So how  is it you said -- "She is my sister?" At  that Isaac said to him -- "I  said  it for fear I should die on her account."  But  Abimelch continued -- "What is this you have  done to us?  A little more and certainly one of the people would have lain down with your wife, and you would have brought  guilt upon  us!"  Then Abimelech commanded  all the people,  saying -- "Anybody  touching  this  man and his wife will surely be put to death!"   After  Isaac began to sow  seed in that land, and in that year  he was getting  up to a 100 measures to one,  as  God  blessed him.   Consequently the man became great  and went on advancing  more and more and growing  greater until  he got  very  great.   And he came to have flocks of sheep and herds of cattle and  a large body of servants,  so that the Philistines began to envy him.    As for the wells that the servants of his father  had dug in the days of Abraham his father,  these  the Philistines  stopped up and they would  fill them  with dry earth.   Finally Abimelech said to Isaac -- "Move  from our neighborhood,  because you have grown  far stronger than we are."   So Isaac moved from there and encamped in the torrent valley of Gerar  and took up dwelling  there.    And Isaac proceeded to dig  again the wells of water  that  they had dug  in the days of  Abraham  his father but which the Philistines  went  stopping  up after Abraham's  death. -- and he resumed calling their names  by the names that his  father had called them.    And  the servants  of Isaac went  on digging  in the torrent valley and so they found  there a well of  fresh water.   But the shepherds of Gerar  fell to quarreling  with shepherds of  Isaac,  saying -- "The water is ours!"    Hence he called name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.  And  they went digging another well, and they fell to quarreling over it also.   Hence he called  its name Sitnah.  Later he moved away from there and dug another well, but they did not quarrel over it.   Hence  he called its name  Rehoboth and said -- "It  

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  is because now  God has given us ample room and has made us fruitful in the earth." Then he went up from there Beersheba.    And God proceeded to appear to him during that night and to say -- "I am the God of Abraham your father.   Do not be afraid, because I am with you  and  will bless you and multiply your seed on account of Abraham my servant."   Accordingly he built an altar there and called on the name of God and pitched his tent there and the servants of Isaac went excavating a well there.   Later on Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his confidential friend and Phicol the chief of his army.    At this Isaac said to them -- "Why have you come to me, seeing that you yourselves hated me  and so sent me away from your neighborhood?"   To this they said -- "We have unmistakably  seen that God has proved to be with you.   Hence we said -- 'Let, please, an oath of obligation occur between us, between us  and you, and let us conclude a covenant with you, that you will do  nothing  bad toward us  just as  we have not touched you and just as we have done only good toward you in that we sent you away in peace.   You   are now the blessed of  God.'"   Then he made a feast for them and they ate and drank.   Next morning they were early in rising and they made sworn statements one to other.   After that Isaac sent them away and they went from him in peace.    Now on that day it occurred that the servants of Isaac proceeded to come and reported to him regarding the well that they had dug, and to say to him -- "We have found water!"   Hence he called its name Shibah.    That is why the name of the city is Beersheba, down to this day.   And Esau grew to be 40 years old.   Then  he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.    And they were source of bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah.        27   Now  it came about that when Isaac was old and  his eyes were too dim to see  he  then called Esau his older son and said to him -- "My son!"  at which  he said to him -- "Here  I am!"  And  he went on to say -- "Here, now,  I have become old.  I  do not  know  the day of my death.   So  at this time  take,  please, your implements, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt some venison (deer) for me.    Then make me a tasty dish such as I am fond  of and bring it to me and, ah, let me eat,  in order that my  soul  may bless you before I die."    However, Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son.  And Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it in.   And Rebekah said to Jacob her son -- "Here I just heard your father speaking  to Esau  your brother, saying -- "Bring me some game and make me  a tasty  dish and, ah, let me eat,  that I may bless you before God before my death.   And now,  my son, listen to my  voice in what I am commanding you.   Go,  please,  to the herd  and get me from there  2 kids of the goats,  good ones,  that I may make  them  up into a tasty  dish  for your father  such as he is fond of.   Then you must bring it  to your father and he must eat it,  in order that he may bless you before his death."   And  Jacob  proceeded to say to Rebekah  his mother -- 

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 "But Esau my brother is a hairy  man  and I am a smooth man.   What if  my father  feels me?  Then  I shall certainly become  in his eyes like one making a mockery,  and I shall certainly bring  upon  myself  a malediction  and not a blessing."    At this his mother said to him -- "Upon  me be the malediction meant for you, my son.  Only listen  to my voice and go, get them for me."    Accordingly he went and got  them and brought them to his mother,  and his mother made a tasty dish  such  as his father was fond of.   After that  Rebekah took garments of Esau  her older son,  the most desirable ones which  were with  her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.   And  the skins of the kids of the goats  she put upon his hands and  upon the hairless part of his neck.  Then  she gave the tasty  dish  and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.   So  he went on in  to his father and said -- "My father!"  to which he said -- "Here I am!  Who are you, my son?"  And  Jacob went on to say to his father -- "I am Esau your 1stborn.   I  have done just as you have spoken  to me.   Raise yourself up,  please.  Sit down  and eat some of my  game,  in order  that your soul  may bless me."   At that Isaac said to his son -- "How  is it that you have been so quick in finding it, my son?"  In turn  he said -- "Because your God caused it to meet up with me."   Then  Isaac said to Jacob  -- "Come near, please,  that I may  feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."   So Jacob  came near to  Isaac  his father, and he went feeling him, after  which  he said -- "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are  the hands of Esau."  And he did not recognize him, because his hands  proved to be hairy like the hands of Esau, his brother.  Hence he  blessed him.  After that he said -- "You are really my son Esau?"   to which he said -- "I am."   Then Isaac said --  "Bring  it  near to me so I may eat some of  the game of my son,  to the end that my soul may bless you."  with that he brought it near to him and he began to eat,  and he brought him wine, and he began to drink.   Then Isaac  his father said to him -- "Come near, please, and  kiss me, my son."   So he came near and kissed him,  and he could smell  the scent of his  garments.   And  he  proceeded to bless him and to say -- "See, the  scent of my son is like the scent of the field which God blessed and may  the true  God give you the dews of the heaven and the fertile  soils of the earth and an abundance of grain and new wine.  Let people serve you and let national groups bow  low to you.  Become master over your brothers,  and  let the sons of your mother in law bow low to you.  Cursed  be each one  of those cursing you, and blessed  be each one of those blessing  you."    Now it came  about as soon  as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, yes, it indeed came about  when  Jacob had barely come out from  before the face of Isaac his father,  that Esau  his brother came back from  his hunting.    And  he too went about making a tasty dish.  Then he brought it to his father and said to his father -- "Let my father  get up and eat some of his son's  game, in order that your soul  may  bless  me."   At this Isaac his father siad to him -- "Who are you?"   to which he said -- "I am your son,  your 1stborn,  Esau."    And Isaac began to shake with  a great trembling  in  extreme  measure,  

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  and so he said -- "Who, then, was it that hunted for game and came bringing  it to  me,  so that  I  ate of everything  before you could  come in and I blessed him?   Blessed too he will become!"     On  hearing his father's  words  Esau began  to cry out in an extremely loud  and bitter manner  and to say  to his  father -- "Bless me, even  me too,  my  father!"    But he went on  to say -- "Your  brother came with  deception that he might get the blessing  meant for you."   At  this he said -- "Is  that not why  his name  is called Jacob,  in that he  should  supplant me these 2 times?    My birthright he has already taken,  and here at this  time he has taken my blessing!"    Then  he added -- "Have  you not  reserved  a blessing  for me?"     But in answer to Esau Isaac  continued -- "Here I have appointed  him  master over you, and all his brothers I have given  to him  as servants,  and grain  and new wine I have bestowed  for his  support, and where is there anything  I can do for you,  my son?"   Then Esau  said to his father -- "Is  there just  one blessing  that you have,  my  father?  Bless me,  even me too,  my  father!"   With  that Esau raised his voice and burst into tears.   So  in  answer Isaac  his father  said to him-- "Behold,  away  from  the fertile soils of the earth  your dwelling  will be found,  and away from the dew of the heavens  above.   And  by your sword you will live,  and your  brother restless,  you will indeed break  his yoke  off your neck."     However,  Esau  harbored  animosity  for Jacob  on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him,  and Esau  kept saying in his heart --  "The  days of the period of mourning for my father  are getting closer.   After that  I am  going  to kill Jacob my brother."    When the words of Esau her older son  were told to Rebekah,  she at once sent  and called Jacob her younger son  and said  to him -- "Look!  Esau your brother is comforting himself in regard to  you -- to kill you.   Now, then, my son,  listen to my voice and get up,  run  away to Laban my  brother  at Haran.   And you  must  dwell with  him  for some  days until  the rage of your brother calms down,  until  the anger of your brother  turns  away from you and he has forgotten  what you done to him.   And I shall certainly send and get you from there.  Why  should  I bereaved  also  of both  of you in one day?"    After  that  Rebekah kept saying to Isaac -- "I have  come to abhor  this life  of mine  because of the daughters of Heth.  If Jacob ever takes  a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, of what good is life to me?"        28    Consequently Isaac called  Jacob and blessed him  and commanded him and said to him -- "You must not take a wife from  the daughters of Canaan.    Get up  go to  Paddanaram to the house of Bethuel   the father of your  mother and from  there  take yourself  a wife   from the daughters of Laban the brother  of your mother.    And  God Almighty will bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and  you will certainly  become a  congregation  of peoples.    And he will  give  to you the blessing of Abraham,  to  you and to your seed with  you,  that you may take possession  of the land of your alien  residences,  which  God has given  to Abraham."

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   So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he struck out for  Paddanaram,   for Laban the son of Bethuel, the Syrian, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. When Esau  saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had  sent him away to Paddanaram to take from there a  wife for himself,  and that when  he blessed  him  he laid command upon him, saying -- "Do  not take a wife from  the daughters of  Canaan" --  and that  Jacob was obeying his father and mother and was on his way to Paddanaram  -- Then Esau saw that  the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac his father.    Hence  Esau went to Ishmael  and took as  wife Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael the son of Abraham,  the sister of Nebaioth, besides his other wives.   And Jacob continued his way out from Beersheba and kept going to Haran.      In time he came  across a place and set about spending  there because the Sun had set.  So he took  one of the stones of the place and set it as his head supporter  and lay down  in that place.    And he began to dream  and, look!   there was a ladder stationed  upon the earth and its top  reaching up to the heavens,  and, look!    there were  God's angels  ascending and descending  on it.   And look!  there was  God stationed above it,  and he proceeded  to say --"I am Jehovah the  God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac.   The land  upon which you are lying, to you I am  going to give  it  and to your  seed.   And your seed  will certainly  become  the dust particles  of the earth,  and you will certainly spread abroad  to the west, to the east and  to the north and to the south,  and by means of you and by means of your  seed all the families of the ground will certainly bless themselves.  And here  I am with you and I will keep you in  all the way  you are going and I return you to this ground, because I am not going to leave you until  I have actually done what I spoken  to you."    Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said - "Truly Jehovah is in this place, but I myself didn't know it."    And  he grew fearful and added -- "How fear inspiring his place is fear inspiring  this place is!   This  is nothing else  but the house  of God and this is the gate of heavens."    So  Jacob got up early in the morning and took the stone  that was  there as his  head supporter  and set it up as a pillar and  poured  oil  on the top of it.     Further, he called the  name of that place Bethel -- but the fact is,  Luz was city's name  formerly.    And  Jacob  went  on to vow a vow,  saying -- "If God will  continue with  me  and will  certainly keep me on this way on which  I am going   and will certainly give me bread to eat and garments to wear and I   shall certainly  return in peace to the house of my father,  then Jehovah will have proved to be my God.   And this stone  I  have set up as a pillar will become a house of God, and as for everything  that you will  give me  I  shall  without fail  give  the 10th  of it to you."        29   After that Jacob  set his feet in motion  and  traveled on to the land of the Orientals.  Now he looked, and here  there was a well in the field and here  3 droves of sheep  were lying down there by it,  because from that well  they were  accustomed to  water the droves -- and there  was a great stone over the mouth of the well.     When all the  droves  had  been  gathered there, 

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  they rolled stone away from off the mouth of the well, and they watered the flocks, after they returned the stone over to the mouth of the well. to its place.    So  Jacob said to them -- "My brothers, from what place  are  you?" to which they said -- "We  are from  Haran."   Then  he said to them --  "Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?"   to  which  they said --"We know  him."   At  this he said to them -- "Is it all right with him?" In  turn  they said -- "It  is all right.   And here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."  And he went on to say -- "Why,  is it yet full day.  It is  not the time  for gathering  the herds,   Water the sheep,  then go  feed them." To this they said -- "We are not allowed  to do so until  all  the droves are  gathered and they actually  roll away the stone  from off the mouth of the well.   Then we must water the sheep."     While he was yet  speaking with them, Rachel  came with the sheep that  belonged to her father, for she was a shepherdess.   And  it came  about  that when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother,  Jacob immediately approached and rolled away the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.   Then  Jacob  kissed Rachel and raised his voice and burst into tears.    And Jacob began to tell Rachel that he was the brother of her father and that he was son of Rebekah.    And she went  running to telling  her father.   Now it came about that as soon as Laban heard  the report  about Jacob  the son of his sister,  he went running  to meet him.  Then he  embraced  him and kissed him and brought him on  into the house.    And  he began to relate to  Laban all these things.   After  that  Laban said to him -- "You are indeed my bone and my flesh."    So  he went  with him a full month.    After  that Laban said to Jacob -- "Are you my brother?  and must serve me for nothing?  Tell me, What are your wages  to be?   As it was, Laban had 2 daughters.   The name  of the older was Leah  and the name of younger Rachel.  But the eyes of Leah had no luster,  whereas Rachel had become beautiful in form and beautiful of countenance (face, expression).  And Jacob was in love with Rachel.   So he said --"I am willing  to serve you 7 years for Rachel your younger daughter."  To this Laban  said -- "It  is better or me to give her to you than for me to giver her to another man.  Keep dwelling with me."   And  Jacob proceeded to serve 7 years  for Rachel,  but in his eyes they proved to be like some few days because of his love for her.   Then  Jacob  said to Laban -- "Give  over my wife,  because my days are up,  and let me have relations with her."   With that Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.    But it turned out that during the evening  he resorted  to taking Leah his daughter  and bringing her to him that he might have relations with her.   Moreover,  Laban gave to her Zilpah  his maidservant, even to Leah  his daughter, as a maidservant.     So it followed in  the morning  here it was Leah!   Consequently he said to Laban -- "What is this you have done to me?   Was it not for Rachel  that I served with you?   So why have you tricked me?"  To this Laban  said -- "It is not done ordinarily to do this way in our place, to give  the younger  woman  before the 1stborn. Celebrate  to  

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   the full week of this woman.     After that  there shall be given to you also this other woman for the service that you can  serve me for 7 years more."    According  Jacob did so  and celebrated  fully the week of this woman,  after which  he gave him  Rachel  his  daughter as  his wife.    Besides Laban gave Bilhah his maidservant to  Rachel to  his daughter as maidservant.  Then he had relations also with Rachel and  also expressed    more love for Rachel than for Leah,  and he went serving with him for yet 7 years more.   When God  came to see that Leah was hated, HE opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.   And Leah became pregnant and brought  a son to  birth  and then called his name Reuben,  for she said  -- "It is  because God has looked upon my wretchedness, in that my  husband will begin to love me."        And she  became  pregnant again and brought a son and then said --"It is because  God has  listened, in that I was hated so he gave me also this one."     Hence she called his name Simeon.     And she became  pregnant  again brought a son to birth and then said -- "Now this time my husband will join himself to me, because I have borne him 3 sons."    His name therefore was called Levi.   And she became pregnant once more and brought a son to birth and then said --"This time I shall laud (praise)  God."      She therefore called his name Judah.   After that  she  left off giving birth.             30  Then Rachel came to see that she had borne nothing  to Jacob, Rachel  got jealous of her  sister and began to say to Jacob-"Give me children or otherwise I shall be a dead woman."    At this Jacob's anger burned against Rachel and he said -- "Am I in the  place of God?   Who has held back the fruit of belly from you?"   So she said- -"Here is my slave girl Bilhah.   Have relations with her, that she may give birth upon my knees and that I,  even I  may get children from her."     With that she  gave him  Bilhah  her maidservant as wife, and  Jacob   had relations with her.    And  Bilhah  became pregnant and in time bore  Jacob a son.    Then Rachel said -- "God has acted as my judge and  has  listened to my voice,  so that he gave me a son."     That is why she  called his  name Dan.     And Bilhah,  Rachel's  maidservant, became pregnant  once more and in time  bore a 2nd son to Jacob.    Then  Rachel said -- "With strenuous  wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister.   I also come off a winner!"    So she  called his  name Naphtali.     When  Leah  came to see that she had left off giving birth, she proceeded to take Zilpah, her maidservant and give  her to Jacob as wife.   In time  Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore a son to Jacob.   Then Leah said -- "With good fortune!"    So she named him Gad.    After that Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore a  2nd son to Jacob. then  Leah said-- "With my happiness!   For the daughters will certainly pronounce me happy."     So she  called his  name  Asher.    Now Reuben went walking in the  days of the wheat harvest and got to find mandrakes in the field.    So he brought them to Leah his mother.   Then  Rachel said  to Leah -- "Give me, please, some your son's mandrakes."     At this she said to her -- "Is this a little thing,  your 

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having taken my husband, with your now taking also my son's  mandrakes?"   So  Rachel said --"For that reason he is going to lie down with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."   When  Jacob was coming  from  the field in  the evening, Leah went on out to meet him and then said --"It is with  me  you  are going to have relations, because  I have hired you outright with my son's mandrakes."  Accordingly  he lay down with her that night.   And  God heard and answered  Leah and she became pregnant and in  time bore to Jacob a 5th son.   Then  Leah said -- "God has given me a hireling's (laborer's wages}  because I have given my  maidservant to my husband." So she  called his name  Issachar.   And  Leah became pregnant once more and in time bore a 6th son to Jacob.   Then Leah said -- "God has  endowed me, yes, me,  with  a good endowment.   At last  my husband will tolerate me,  because I have borne him 6 sons."    So she  called  his name  Zebulun.   And after that she  bore a daughter and  then called  her name Dinah.     Finally God remembered Rachel, and God heard and answered  her in that she opened her womb.   And she became pregnant and  brought  a  son to birth.  Then she said -- "God has taken away my reproach!"   So she called his name Joseph, saying -- "God is adding another son to me!"   And it followed that when Rachel  had given birth to Joseph,  Jacob immediately  said to Laban -- "Send me away that I may go to  my place and to my country.  Give over my wives and my children, for whom I have served with you, that I may go -- for you yourself must  know  my service  which I have  rendered you."   Then  Laban  said  to him -- "If, now,  I have found favor in your eyes -- I have taken  the omens to the effect that God is blessing me due to you."   And he added -- "Stipulate  (Specify) your wages to me and  I will give them."   So  he said to him -- "You yourself must  know how I have served you and how your herd has  fared  with me --  that it was little  that you actually had before my coming, and it went expanding  to a  multitude,  in that God blessed  you since I stepped in.    So  now when  am I  to do something for my own house?"    then he said -- "What shall  I  give you?"   And  Jacob went on to say -- "You will give me  nothing  whatsoever!  If you will do this thing for me,  I shall resume shepherding your flock.  I shall continue guarding it.  I will pass among  your whole flock today.   You set aside from there every sheep speckled and with color patches, every dark brown sheep among the young  rams and any color patched and speckled one among  the she goats.   Hereafer such  must be my wages.  And my rightdoing must answer for me on whatever future day you may come to look over my wages  --   every one that is not speckled and color patched among the she goats and dark brown among the young rams is something stolen if it is with me."  To this Laban said -- "Why, that is fine!  Let it be according to your word."   Then he set aside on that day he goats  and striped and color patched and all the she goats speckled  and color patched,  every one in  which  there was any white and every one dark brown among the young rams,  but he gave them over into the hands of his sons.   After that he set  a distance of 3 days journey between himself  and Jacob, and  Jacob

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  was shepherding  the flocks of Laban  that remained over.   Then Jacob took for his  use staffs still moist of the storax  tree  and of the almond  tree and  peeled spots by laying bare white places which  were upon the staffs.  Finally the staffs that he had peeled he placed in front of the flock, in the gutters, in the water drinking  troughs, where the flocks would come to drink, that they might  get into a heat before them when they came to drink.  Consequently, the flock would get in heat before the staffs and the flocks  would  produce striped,  specked and color patched ones.   And  Jacob  separated the young rams and then turned the faces of the flocks ot the striped ones and all the dark ones  among  the flocks of Laban.  And it always occurred that whenever the robust  flocks would  get in heat,  Jacob would  locate the staffs in  the gutters before  the eyes of  the flocks, that they might get in  heat by the staffs.   But when the flocks showed  feebleness  he would not locate them there.  So the feeble ones  always came to be  Laban's,  but the robust  ones Jacob's.    And  the man went on increasing  more and more,  and  great flocks  and maidservants  and menservants  and  camels  and asses came  to be his.        31   In  time he  got to hear the words  of the sons of  Laban, saying --"Jacob has taken   everything   that belonged to our father -- and  from what belonged to our father  he has amassed  all his wealth."   When Jacob  would  look  at the face  of Laban,  here it was not with  him as formerly.     Finally God said  to Jacob -- "Return to the land of your fathers  and to your  relatives,  and I shall continue  with you."   Then Jacob sent and called Rachel  and Leah, out to the field to his flock,  and he said to them -- "I am seeing the face your father,  that he is not the same toward me  as formerly -- but  the God of my father has proved to be with me.  And  you yourselves  certainly know that with all my power I have served your father.   And your father has trifled with me and he has changed my wages 10 times, but God  has  not allowed  him to do me harm.   If  on the one hand he would say -- "The speckled ones will become your wages,'  then  the whole flock produced speckled ones --but on the other hand, he would say,   "The striped ones will become your wages', then the whole flock produced striped one.   So  God  kept taking the herd of your father away  and giving it to me.   At last it came about  at the time when  the flock got in heat  that I raised my eyes and  saw a sight in a dream and  here the he goats springing upon  the flock were striped, speckled and spotty.    Then the angel of the true God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob!'  to which I said, 'Here I am.'  And he continued, 'Raise your eyes, please,  and see all the he goats  springing upon  the flock  are striped,  specked and spotty, for I have seen all that Laban  is doing  to you.  I am  the true God of Bethel,  where you anointed a pillar and  where you vowed a vowed a vow to me.   Now get up, go  out of  this land and return  to the land  of your birth.'"    At  this Rachel and Leah answered and  said to him -- "Is there  share  of  inheritance for us anymore  in the house of   

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our father?"    Are we not really considered as foreigners  to him since  he has sold us,  so that he keeps eating continually even from  the money given for  us?   For all  the riches that God  has taken away from our father  are ours and our children's.     So  now everything  God has  said to you do."   Then  Jacob  got up  and lifted his  children and his wives  onto the camels -- and  he began driving  all  his herd and all the goods that  he had  accumulated,  the herd of his acquisition that he had accumulated in Paddanaram,  in order to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.     Now Laban  had gone  to shear his sheep.   Meantime  Rachel stole the  teraphim (shrine) that belonged to her father.   So Jacob outwitted Laban the Syrian,  because he did not told him that he was running away.     And he proceeded to run away and to get up cross the River, he and all he had.   After that he directed his face to the mountainous  region of Gilead.     Later, on the 3rd day, it was told to Laban that Jacob had run away.   With that he took  his brothers with him and went chasing after him for a distance of  7 days' journey and caught up with him in the  mountainous  region of Gilead.   Then God came to Laban the Syrian in  a dream by night and said to him -- "Watch yourself that you do not go speaking either good or  bad with Jacob."    So Laban approached Jacob, as Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain and Laban had encamped his brothers in the mountainous region of Gilead.   Then  Laban said to Jacob -- "What have you done,  in that you resorted to outwitting  me and driving  my daughters off like captives taken by the sword?   Why did you  have to run away secretly, outwit me and not tell me,  that I might send you away rejoicing and with songs, with tambourine and with harp?   And  you did not give me a  chance to kiss my children and my daughters.   Now you have acted foolishly.    It is in  the  power of my hand to do harm to you people, but the God of your father talked to me last night, saying, 'Watch yourself against speaking either good or bad with Jacob.'   While you have actually gone now because you have been  yearning intensely for the house of your father,  why, though, have you stolen my gods (shrine)?"    In  answer Jacob  proceeded  to say  to Laban -- "It was because I was afraid.  For I said to myself,  'You might tear your daughters away from me.'   Whoever it is with whom you may find your gods, let them not live.    Before our brothers, examine for yourself what is with me and take them for yourself."  But Jacob did  not know Rachel had stolen them.  So Laban went  on  into the tent of Jacob and into the tent of  Leah and into the tent of the  2 slave girls,  but did not  find them.   Finally he went  out of Leah's tent and went on into the Rachel's tent.    Now  Rachel had taken the teraphim,  and  she resorted to putting them in the woman's saddle  basket of the camel, and she kept sitting upon them.   So Laban went feeling through  the whole tent,  but did  not find them.   Then she said to her father -- "Do  not let  anger  glean in the eyes of my lord, because I am not able to get up before you, for customary  thing with women is upon me."   So  he  searched  on carefully, but  did  not find the teraphim.    And Jacob became angry and began to quarrel with  Laban, and in  answer Jacob  went     

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  on  to say  to Laban -- "What is the revolt on my part, what the sin of mine,  as  a reason why  you have hotly pursued after me?   Now that you have felt through  all my goods, what of all the goods of your house have you found?   Put it here  in front of my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between us  2.    These 20 years I  have been with you.   Your female sheep  and your she goats did not suffer abortions, and the  rams of your flock I never ate.   Any animals torn in pieces I did not bring to you.   I myself would stand the loss of it.  Whether one was stolen by day or was  stolen by night,  you would put in  a claim for it from my hand.    It has  been my experience that by day the heat consumed  me and the cold by night,  and sheep would flee from my eyes.   This makes  20 years  for me in  your house.    I  have served you 14 years for your flock, and you kept changing my wages 10 times.   If  the God of my father,  the  God of Abraham and the Dread of  Isaac, had not proved on my side, you would now have sent me away empty handed!   My  wretchedness  and the toil of my hands God has  seen,  and so he  reproved you last night."    Then  Laban in  answer said to  Jacob -- "The daughters are my daughters and the children  are my children and  the flock my flock, and  everything you are looking at is mine and my daughters.'    What can I do against these today or against their children  whom they have borne?    And now, come,  let us conclude a covenant (relationship, promise),  I and you,  and it must serve as a witness between me and you."     According to  Jacob took  a  stone and set it up as pillar. Then Jacob said to his brothers -- "Pick up the stones!"    And they went taking stones  and making a heap.     After that they ate there on the  heap.    And  Laban  began calling it Jegarsahadutha but  Jacob called it Galeed.     And Laban proceeded to say -- "This heap is a witness between me and you today."    That  is why he called its name  Galeed,  and The Watchtower, because  he said -- "Let Jehovah keep watch between me and you when we are situated unseen the one from the other.    If you go afflicting my daughters and if you  go to taking wives in addition to my daughters, there is  no man with us.    See!   God is a witness between me and you."   And Laban went on to say to Jacob -- "Here is this heap and here is the heap and the pillar that I have erected  between  me and you.    This heap is a witness, and the pillar is something that  bears witness,  that I will not pass this heap against you and that you will not pass this heap and this  pillar against me for harm.   Let the god of Abraham and  the god of Nahor judge between us,  the god of their father."   But Jacob swore by  Dread of  his father  Isaac.    After that Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice in the mountain and invited his brothers to eat bread and passed the night  in the mountain.    However, Laban got up early in the morning and kissed his children and his daughters and blessed them.  Then Laban got on his way that he might  return to his own place.           32   And  as for  Jacob,  he got on his way,  and  the angels of God now  met up with him.     Immediately Jacob said, when he saw them -- "The  camp of God  this is!"   Hence he called  the name of that place  Mahanaim.    Then  Jacob sent messengers  ahead of him to Esau his   

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brother to land of Seir, the field of Edom,  and he commanded them, saying --  "This is what you will say to  my lord,  to Esau.  'This  is what  your servant Jacob  has said -- "With Laban  I have  resided  as an alien and  I  have stayed for  a long time  till now.   And  I have  come to have  bulls and asses, sheep,  and menservants and  maidservants,  and I would like to  send to notify my lord, that I may find  favor  in your eyes."'"    In time the  messengers  returned to Jacob, saying --  "We  got to your brother Esau,  and he is also on his  way to meet you,  and  400 men  with him."   And  Jacob  became  very  much afraid and grew anxious.   So he divided the people  who were with him, and the flocks and the cattle and the camels into 2 camps,  and he said -- "If Esau  should come to the  one camp and assault it,  then  there  is certain  to be a  camp  remaining  to make an escape."     After Jacob said -- "O  God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah,  you  who are saying to me,  'Return to your land and to your relatives and I will deal with you.'  I am unworthy of all the loving-kindnesses  and of all the faithfulness that you have exercised  toward your servant,  for with but my staff  I crossed  this  Jordan and now I have  become 2 camps.   Deliver me, I pray  you, from  my brother's  hand,  from  Esau's hand,  because  I am afraid of him that he may come and certainly  assault me,  mother together with children.     And you,  you have said --  'Unquestionably  I shall deal well with you and I will constitute  your seed  like the grains of sand of the sea, which cannot  be  numbered for multitude.'"  And he kept lodging  there on that night.  And  from what came to his hand he proceeded to take a gift for Esau his brother -- 200 she- goats, 20  he- goats, 200  female sheep and 20 rams, 30 camels  giving suck and their young ones, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20  she-asses  and 10 full-grown asses.   Then  he  handed over to his servants  one drove after another  by itself  and repeatedly said to his servants -- "Cross over ahead of me, and you are to set  an interval between drove and drove."   Further  he commanded the 1st  one, saying -- "In case that Esau my brother  should meet you and ask you, saying,  'To whom  do you belong,  and where are you going and to whom do these ahead of you belong?'   Then you must  say,  'To your servant,  to Jacob.   A  Gift it is,   sent to  my lord,  to  Esau,  and look!    he himself is also behind us.'"   And he went on to  command  also the 2nd, also the 3rd,  also all  those following  the droves saying-- "According to this word you are to speak  to Esau  on your encountering him.     And  must say also --  'Here is your servant  Jacob behind us,'"    For  he said to himself -- "I may  appease him by gift going ahead of  me, and afterward  I shall see  his face.   Perhaps he will give a kindly  reception."   So the gift went crossing over ahead of him,  but he himself lodged that night in the camp.     Later during the night he rose and took his  2 wives  and  his  2 maidservants and his 11 young sons and crossed  over the ford of Jabbok.     So he took them  and  brought  them over the torrent valley, and he brought over what he had.     Finally  Jacob was left by himself.  Then  a man  began  to grapple with him  until  the dawn  ascended.   When  he got to      

   

 

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see that he had not prevailed over him,  then he  touched socket of his thigh joint -- and the socket of Jacob's thigh joint got out of place during  his grappling  with him.   After that he said-- "Let me go,  for the  dawn has ascended."    To this he said -- "I am not going to let you go until you 1st bless me."   So he  said to him -- "What is your name?"   to which  he said, "Jacob."  Then he said, "Your name will  no longer be called Jacob  but Israel,  for you have  contended with God and  with men so that you  last prevailed."    In turn Jacob inquired and said -- "Tell me, please, your name."   However he said  --  "Why  is it that you inquire for my name?"   With that he  blessed him there.   Hence Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, because  to quote him,  "I have seen God face to face and  yet my soul was  delivered."    And the sun began to flash upon him as soon as he passed  by Penuel, but he was limping upon his thigh.    That  is why sons of Israel are not  accustomed  to eat  the sinew of the thigh nerve, which is on the socket of the thigh joint, down to this day, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh joint by the sinew of the thigh nerve.         33    In time Jacob  raised his eyes  and looked,  and here  Esau saw  coming  and with him 400 men.  Consequently he  divided off the  children to Leah and to Rachel and  to 2 maidservants, and he put maidservants and their  children foremost and  Leah and her children after them and Rachel and Joseph  to the rear of them.     And he  himself passed on  ahead of them and proceeded to  bow down to the earth several times until he got near his brother.    And  Esau went  running to meet  him,  and he  began to embrace him  and fall upon  his  neck  and kiss  him,   and they burst into tears.    Then he  raised his eyes and saw  the women and the  children and said -- "Who are these with  you?"  to which he said -- "The  children with whom  God has favored  your servant."   At that  the maidservants  came forward, and her children,  and bowed down --and Leah  too came forward and her children, and they bowed down,  and afterward  Joseph came forward, and Rachel, and they bowed down.    He now said -- "What  do you mean by all this camp of travelers that I have met?"  To this he said -- "In order to find favor in the eyes of my lord."   Then Esau said -- "I have  a great many,  my brother.  Let continue yours what is yours."   However, Jacob  said -- "No, please. If  now,  I have found a favor in your eyes, then  you must take my gift  at my hand, because in harmony with its purpose I have seen your face  as though seeing God's face in that  you received me with pleasure."   Take, please, the gift conveying  my blessing which was brought to you, because God has favored me and because I have everything."   And he continued to urge him, so that he took it.   Later on he said -- "Let us pull out and go, and let me go in advance of you."  But he said to him -- "My lord is aware  that the children are delicate and sheep and cattle that are giving suck in my charge,  and should they drive too quickly for one day, then the whole flock will certainly die.  Let my lord,  please, pass on ahead of his servant,  but may I  myself continue  the journey at my leisure according  to the pace of the livestock that is before me and according to the pace of the children until      

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I shall come to my lord at Seir."   Then Esau said -- "Let me, please, put at your disposal some of the people who are with me."   To  this  he said -- "Why this?  Let   me find favor the eyes  of my lord."    So  on that day Esau turned back  on his way  to Seir.    And Jacob pulled  out  for Succoth,  and he proceeded to build himself  a house  and for his  herd he made booths.   That  was  why he called the name of the place  Succoth.   In time Jacob  came safe and sound to the city of Shechem,  which is in the land of Canaan,  while he was coming from  Paddanaram -- and he pitched camp  in front of the city.   Then  he acquired  tract of the field where he pitched his  tent  at the hand of the sons of  Hamor the father of Shechem,  for a 100 pieces of money.   After  that he set up there an altar  

and called it God  the God of Israel.       34   Now Dinah daughter of Leah,  whom she had borne to  Jacob, used to go out to see  the daughters of the land.    And Shechem   the son of Hamor the Hivite,  a chieftain  of the land,  got to see her and  then took her  lay down with her and violated her.    And  his soul began to cling to  Dinah the daughter of Jacob,  and he fell in love with the young woman and  kept speaking persuasively  to the young woman.    Finally Shechem said to Hamor his  father -- "Get me this young lady as  a wife."   But Jacob heard that he had  defiled Dinah his daughter.    His sons happened to be with  his herd  in the field -- and Jacob kept silent until they came in.    Later Hamor, Shechem's father,  went out to Jacob  to speak with  him.   And the sons of  Jacob came in  from  the field as soon as they  heard of it -- and the men became  hurt  in their feelings  and they grew very angry, because  he had committed a disgraceful  folly against Israel in  lying down with Jacob's daughter,  whereas  nothing like that ought  to be done.   And Hamor proceeded to speak to them,  saying -- "As  for Shechem  my son,  his soul  is attached to your daughter.   Give her, please, to him as a wife, and form marriage alliances with us, and our daughters you are able to  take  for yourselves.   And with us you may dwell,  and the land will become  available for  you.   Dwell  and carry on business in it and get settled in it."   Then Shechem said to her father and  to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you  will say to me I shall give it.   Raise very high  the marriage money and gift imposed on me,  and I stand willing to give according  to what  you may say to me -- only  give me the young woman as a wife."   And Jacob's sons began to answer Shechem and Hamor  his father with deceit and to speak so because he had defiled Dinah their sister.    And they  went on to say to them -- "We  cannot possibly do such a thing,  to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin,  because that is a reproach to us.   Only on this condition can we give consent to you,  that you become like us,  by every male or yours getting circumcised.   Then we shall certainly  give our daughters to you, and your daughters we  shall take for ourselves, and we  shall certainly dwell with you and become one people.      But if you do not listen to us to get circumcised, then we will take our daughters and go." 

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And  their words seemed  good  in the eyes of  Hamor and  in the eyes of Shechem,  Hamor's son, and the young man did not delay  to perform the condition,  because he  did not find delight  in Jacob's daughter and he was not  the most honorable  of the whole house of his father.    So  Hamor and Shechem   his son went to the gate of their  city and  began  to speak  to the men of their  city, saying -- "These men are peace loving toward us.  Hence  let them  dwell in the land  and  carry on business in it,  as the land is quite  wide  before them.   Only on this  condition will be the men give us  their consent  to dwell with us so as to become one people, that every male of ours  gets circumcised just the way they are circumcised.    Then their possessions and their wealth and all their livestock, will they not  be ours?    Only let us give them our consent so they may dwell with us."    Then all those going out  by the  gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem  his son,  and all  the males got circumcised,  all those going out by the gate of his city.    However,  it came about that  on the 3rd day, when they  got to be acting, the 2 sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,   brothers of Dinah,  proceeded to take each one  his sword and to go  unsuspectedly to the city and kill every male.   And  Hamor and Shechem  his son they killed with the edge  of sword.   Then they took Dinah  from out of Shechem's house and went on out.     The other sons of Jacob attacked the fatally wounded men and went plundering (ransacking) the city, because they had defiled her sister.   Their  flocks and  their herds and their asses and what was in the city and what  was in the field they took.     And all their means of maintenance and all their  little children and their wives they carried off  captives, so that they  plundered all that  was in the houses.   At this  Jacob said to  Simeon and Levi -- "You have brought ostracism upon me  in making me a stench  to the inhabitants of the land,  with the Canaanites and Perizzites --  whereas  I am  few in number, and they will certainly  gather together against me and assault me and I and my house."    In turn they said -- "Ought anyone treat our sister like a prostitute?"        35  After that God said to Jacob -- "Rise,   go  up to Bethel and  dwell there, and  make an altar to the true God who appeared to  you when you were  running away from Esau  your  brother."   Then  Jacob said to his household  and who were with him -- "Put away the foreign gods and cleanse  yourselves and change  your mantles,  and let us rise and go up to Bethel.  And  there I shall  make an altar to  the true God who answered  me in the day of distress  in that he proved to be with  me in the way that  I have gone."  So they gave  Jacob all the foreign gods  that were in  their hands and  the earrings  that in their ears,  and Jacob hid them under the big tree  that was close by Shechem.     After that they pulled away,  and the  terror of God came to be upon the cities  that they did not chase after the sons of Jacob.    Eventually Jacob  came to Luz,  which is  in the land of   

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Canaan, that is to say, Bethel, he and all the people who were wth him. Then he built an altar there and began to call the place Elbethel, because there the true God had revealed himself to him at the time of his running away from his brother. Later Deborah, the nursing woman of Rebekah died and was buried a the foot of Bethel under a massive tree.     Hence he called its name Allonbacuth.    God now appeared to Jacob once again during his coming from Paddanaram and blessed him. And God went on to say to him -- "Your name is Jacob. No longer is your name to be called  Jacob, but Israel will you name become."  And he began to call his name Israel. And God said further to him -- "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and become many. Nations and a congregation of nations will proceed out of you, and kings will come out of your loins. As for the land that I have given to Abraham and Isaac, to you I  shall give it, and to your seed after you I shall give the land."    Consequently Jacob stationed a pillar in the place where he had spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering upon it and poured oil upon it.     And Jacob continued to call the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.    Then they pulled away from Bethel.   And while there was yet a good stretch of land before coming to Ephrath, Rachel proceeded to give birth, and it was going hard with her in making the delivery.    But so it was that while she had difficulty in making the delivery the midwife said to her -- "Do not  be afraid, for you will have this son also."    And the result was that as her soul was going out  (because she died) she called his name Benoni -- but his father called him Benjamin.   Thus Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is to say, Bethlehem.   Hence Jacob stationed a pillar over her grave.   This is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.   After that Israel pulled away and pitched his tent a distance beyond the tower of Eder.    And it came about while Israel was tabernacling in that land that once Reuben went and lay down with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel got to hear of it.    So  there came to be 12 sons of Jacob --     The sons by Leah were Jacob's 1stborn Reuben, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun.    The sons  by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.    And the sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant,  were Dan and Naphtali.    And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant,  were Gad and Asher.     These  are Jacob's sons who  were born to him in  Paddanaram.   At length Jacob came to  Isaac his father in Mamre,  to Kiriatharba,  that is to say Hebron,  where Abraham and  also Isaac had resided as aliens.    And the days of Isaac came to be a 180 years.   And that Isaac expired  and  died and was  gathered to his people, old and satisfied with days,  and Esau and Jacob his son buried him.         36  This is history of Esau,  that is to say, Edom.    Esau took  his wives from the daughters of Canaan --  Adah  the daughter of Elon the Hittite and Oholibamah  the  

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daughter of Anah, the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,  and Basemath,   

Ishamel's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.  And Jacob proceeded to  bear  Eliphaz to  

Esau, and Basemath  bore Reuel, and Oholibamah bore to Jeush and Jalam and Korah.    These  are the sons of Esau who were born to him in  the land of Canaan.  After that Esau took  his wives and his sons and his  daughters and all the souls  of his house  and his  herd  and  all his other beasts  and all  his wealth,  which  he had  accumulated  in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from  Jacob  his brother,  because their goods become too great for them to  dwell together and the land  of their alien residences was not able to sustain them as a result of their herds.   So Esau took up dwelling in the  mountainous region of Seir.   Esau is Edom.    And this is history of Esau the father of Edom in the mountain region of Seir.   These are the names of sons of Esau -- Eliphaz  the son of Adah,   Esau's wife -- Reuel  the son of Basemath, Esau's wife.    And the sons of Eliphaz  came to be  Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam  and Kenaz.   And Timna  became the concubine of   Eliphaz,  Esau's son.   In time she bore  to  Eliphaz  Amalek.   These are the  sons of  Adah, Esau's wife.   The Sons of Reuel --  Nahath and  Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.  These  came to be the sons of Basemath,  Esau's wife.     And these came to be  the sons of  Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,  and granddaughter of Zibeon,  Esau's wife,  in that she  bore to Esau Jeush  and Jalam and Korah.      These were the sheiks (head of the family, tribe) of sons of Esau -- The  sons of Eliphaz, Esau's   1stborn-- sheiks -- Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, Korah,  Gatam, Amalek.   Thsese are the  sheiks of Eliphaz in  the land of Edom.   These are  the sons by Adah. These  are the sons of  Reuel, Esau's son--  Sheiks-- Nahath,  Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.   These  are the sheiks of Reuel  in the land of Edom.  These are the sons by Basemath, Esau's wife.    Finally these are the  sons of Oholibamah,  Esau's wife --  sheiks -- Jeush, Jalam, Korah. These  are the sheiks of Oholibamah  the  daugther of Anah,  Esau's wife.      These  are the sons of Esau,  and these are their sheiks.    He is Edom.    These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land -- Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah  and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These  are the  sheiks of  Horite, the sons of Seir in the land of  Edom.   And the sons of Lotan came to be Hori and Hemam  and Lotan's sister was  Timna.   And  these are the sons of Shobal -  Alvan and Manahath  and Ebal,  Shepho and Onam.    And these are the sons of Zibeon  --  Aiah and Anah.   This  is the Anah  who found the  hot springs in the wilderness while  he was  tending the asses  for Zibeon  his father.    And these are the children of Anah -- Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.    And  these are the sons of Dishon --  Hemdan  and Eshban  and Ithran  and Cheran.   

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  These  are the sons of Ezer --  Bilhan  and Zaavan  and Akan.   These are the sons of Dishan.   Uz  and Aran.   These  are the  sheiks  of the  Horite  --  Sheiks  --  Lotan,  Shobal,  Zibeon,  Anah,  Dishon,  Ezer,   Dishan.   And these are the sheiks of  the Horite  according  to their  sheiks  in the land of Seir.   Now these are the kings  who reigned in the land of Edom  before any king  reigned  over the sons of Israel.   And  Bela son of Beor procceded to reign in Edom,  and the name city was Dinhabah.   When Bela died,   Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah began to reign instead of him.    When  Jobab  died,  Husham from  the land of the Temanites  began to reign instead of him.   When Husham died,  Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the field of Moab,  began to reign instead of him, and the name of his city was Avith.   When  Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah  began to reign  instead of him.    When Samlah  died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River began to reign instead of him.   When  Shaul  died,  Baalhanan son of Achbor began  to reign instead of him.   When Baalhanan  son of Achbor died, Hadar  began  to reign instead of him  --  and the name of his wife was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab.    So these are the name of the sheiks of Esau according to their families,  according to their places, by their names -- Sheiks-- Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, Iram.    These  are the sheiks of Edom  according to their  dwellings  in the land of their possession. This is Esau the father of Edom.         37    And Jacob continued to dwell  in the  land of the  alien residences  of his father,  in  the land of Canaan.   This is  the history of Jacob.   Joseph, when 17 years old, happened to be tending sheep with his brothers among the flock, and, being but a boy, he was with the sons of Bilhah and   the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.  And Israel  loved Joseph  more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age -- and he had a long, striped shirtlike garment   made for him.    When his  brothers  came  to see that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they began to hate him,  and they were not able to speak peacefully to him.    Later on Joseph had a dream and told it to his brothers,    and they found further reason to hate him.    And he went on to say  to them --  "Listen, please,  to this dream I have dreamed.   Well, here we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, when here my sheaf  got  up and also stood  erect  and here  your sheaves  proceeded to encircle and bow down to my sheaf."     And  his brothers began to say to him --"Are you going to be king over us for certain? or,  Are you going to dominate over  us  for certain?"     So they found fresh reason to hate him over his dreams  and his words.    After that he had still another dream, and he related it to his brothers  and said --  "Here  I have had a  dream once more,  and here  the sun and the moon

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  and 11 stars were bowing down to me."    Then he related it to his father as well as his brothers, and his father began to rebuke him and say to him -- "What does this dream that you have dreamed mean?    Am I and also your mother and your brothers for certain going to come and bow down to the earth to you?"    And his brothers grew jealous of him, but his father observed the saying. His brothers now went to feed the flock of their father close by Shechem.    After a while Israel said to Joseph -- "Your brothers are tending flocks close by Shechem, are they not? Come, and let me send you to them." At this he said to him -- "Here I am!" So he said to him -- "Go, please. See whether your brothers are safe and sound, and bring me back word."   With that he sent him away from low plain of Hebron, and he went on toward Shechem.   Later a man found him and here he was wandering in a field. Then the man inquired of him, saying -- "What are you looking for?"   To this he said -- "It is my brothers I am looking for. Tell me, please,   Where are they tending the flocks?" And the man continued -- "They have pulled away from here, because I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'"    So Joseph kept on after his brothers and found them at Dothan.   Well, they caught sight of him from a distance, and before he could get close to them they began plotting cunningly against him to put him to death.     So  they said to one another -- "Look!   Here comes  that dreamer!    And now come and let  us kill him and pitch him into one of the waterpits --  and we must say a vicious wild beast devoured him.    Then let us see  what will  become of his dreams."      When Reuben heard this he tried to  deliver him out of their hand.   So he said -- "Let us not strike his soul  fatally.   And Reuben went on to say to them -- "Do  not spill his blood.    Pitch  him into this  waterpit  which is in  the wilderness   and  do not lay  a  violent  hand upon him."    His  purpose  was to deliver   him out of their  hand in  order to return  him to his father.   So it came about that as  soon as  Joseph came to his brothers, they went  stripping Joseph of his  long garment, even the long striped garment that was upon  him --  after which they  took him  and pitched him into the  waterpit.   At the time the pit  was empty --  there was no water  in it.       Then  they sat  down to eat bread.   When   they raised their eyes  and took a look,  why,  here was a  caravan of Ishamelites  that was coming from Gilead,   and  their camels were carrying   labdanum  and balsam  and resinous  bark,  on  their way to take it  down to  Egypt.    At this  Judah said  to his brothers -- "What  profit would there be  in case we killed our brother and  did cover  over his blood?    Come  and let us sell him to Ishmaelites,  and do not  let our hand  be upon him.    After all,   he is our brother, our flesh."     So they listened to their brother.    Now men, Midianite  merchants,  were passing by.   Hence they drew and lifted up  Joseph out of the waterpit and then sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for 20 silver pieces.  Eventually  these  brought Joseph  into Egypt.    Later  Reuben returned  to the waterpit   and   here  Joseph was not in the waterpit.  Consequently  he ripped his garments  apart.     When he returned to   

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his other brothers he exclaimed -- "The child is gone!  And I -- where  am I really to go?"     However,  they  took Joseph's   long garment  and slaughtered a male  goat and repeatedly dipped  the  long garment in the blood.   After  that they  sent  the long striped  garment  had it brought to their father  and said -- "This is what we found.  Examine,  please,  whether it  is your son's  long garment or not."    And he went examining it and exclaimed -- "It is my son's long  garment!   A vicious wild beast must have devoured him!   Joseph   is surely torn to pieces!"   With that Jacob ripped his mantles apart and put  sackcloth upon his hips and carried on mourning  over his son for many days.    And all his sons and all his daughters kept  rising up  to comfort him,  but he  kept refusing  to take  comfort  and saying -- "For  I shall go down mourning to my son into  Sheol!"     And his  father  continued  weeping  for him. However,  the Midianites sold  him into Egypt to Potiphar a court official of  Pharaoh,  the chief of the bodyguard.         38  Now in the meantime  it came about that when  Judah  went  down from his brothers and  he pitched his tent near a man, an Adullamite, and his name was Hirah.   And there Judah  got to see a daughter of certain  Canaanite,  and his name was Shua.     So he took her and had relations with her.   And she became pregnant.  Later she bore a son named Er.   Again she became pregnant again.   In time  she bore a  son and  called his  name Onan.      And yet  another time she went on  to bear  a son  then called  his name Shelah.    Now he happened to be  in Achzib  at the time she bore him.   In time Judah took a wife for Er  his 1st born,  and her name was Tamar.  But Er,  Judah's  1stborn,  proved to be bad  in the eyes of   God, hence  God  put him to death.    In view of that Judah said to Onan -- "Have  relations with  your brother's  wife and  perform brother -in-law marriage  with   her and raise up  offspring for  your brother."   But  Onan knew that the offspring would  not become his -- and it occurred that when he did have relations with his brother's wife  he wasted  his semen  on  the earth so as  not to give offspring to his brother.    Now what he did was bad in the eyes of God --  hence he put him also  to death.   So  Judah said to Tamar his daughter in law -- "Dwell  as  a widow in the house of  your father until Shelah  my son  grows up."    For he  said to himself -- "He too may die like his brothers."    Accordingly  Tamar  went  and continued to  dwell at her own  father's house.     Thus the days became  many  and the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died --and  Judah kept  the period of mourning.    After that he went up to the shearers of his sheep,  he and Hirah his companion the Adullamite to Timna.     Then it was  told to Tamar --  "Here your  father-in-law  is going  up to Timna to shear his sheep."   With  that she  removed  the garments of her widowhood from her and covered herself with a shawl and veiled herself and sat down at the entrance of Enaim,  where is  along the road to Timna.     For she saw that Shelah had grown up and yet  she had not been given as wife to him.     When Judah  caught sight of her,  he at once took her for a harlot, because she had  covered her face.     So he turned  aside  to her by the road and said  -- "Allow me, please,  to have

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relations with you."   For he did not know that she was his daughter- in law.   However, she said -- "What will you give me that you may have relations with me?"   To this he said -- "I myself shall send a kid of the goats from the herd."   But she said -- "Will you give a security until you send it?"  And he continued -- "What is the security that I shall give you?" to which she said -- "Your seal ring and your cord and your rod that is in your hand." Then he gave them to her and had relations with her, so that she became pregnant by him.   After that she got up and went and removed her shawl off her and clothed herself with the garments of her widowhood.    And Judah proceeded to send a kid of the goats by the land of his companion the Adullamite in order to get back the security from the hand of the woman, but he never found her.    And he went inquiring of the men of her place, saying --"Where is that temple prostitute in  Enaim along the road?"    But they kept saying -- "No temple prostitute has ever been in this place.'"    Finally he returned to Judah and said -- "I never found her, besides, the men of the place said -- 'No temple prostitute has ever been in this place.'" So Judah said -- "Let her take them for herself in order that we may not fall into contempt.    At any rate.    I have sent this kid, but you -- you never found her."    However, about 3 months later it happened that it was told to Judah -- "Tamar your daughter in law has played a harlot, and here  she is also pregnant by her harlotry."    At that Judah said -- "Bring her out and let her be burned."     As she was being brought out she herself sent to her father -in law, saying -- "By the man to whom these belong I am pregnant."    And she added -- "Examine, please, to whom these belong, the seal ring and the cord and the rod."      Then Judah examined them and said -- "She is more righteous than I am, for the reason I did not give her to Shelah my  son."     And he had no further interc*urse with her after that.      Now it developed that in the time of her giving birth, why, here there were twins in her belly.      Further, it turned out that when she was giving birth one extended his hand, and the midwife at once took and tied a scarlet piece about his hand, saying -- "This one came out 1st."      Finally it developed that as soon as he drew back his hand, why, here his brother came out, so that she exclaimed -- "What do you mean by this, that you have produced a perineal rupture for yourself?"      Hence his name was called Perez.    And afterward his brother upon whose hand the scarlet piece was came out and  his name came to  be called Zerah.           39   As for Joseph, he was brought down to Egypt, and  Potiphar, a court official for of Pharaoh,  the chief of the body guard, an Egyptian,  got to buy him from the hand of the Ishamelites who had brought him down there.    But  God proved to  be with him and Joseph,  so he turned out  a successful man  and came to be over the house of  his master,   the Egyptian.      And  his master  got to see that God was with him  that  everything he was doing  God  was making  turn out successful in his hand.   And Joseph kept  finding favor in  his eyes and waited upon him  continually,  so  that he appointed him over his house, and all that was his  he gave to his hand.        And it  followed  that  

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  from the time he appointed  him over  his house  and in charge of all that was  his  

God kept blessing the house of the Egyptian due to Joseph, and  God's blessing  came to be upon all  that he had in the house and the field.      Finally  he left everything  that was his  in  Joseph's hand --  and he did not know  what was with him  at all except  the bread he was eating.    Moreover,  Joseph grew to beautiful  in form  and beautiful  in  appearance.    Now  after  these  things it  came about  that the wife of  his master began to raise her eyes toward Joseph and say -- "Lie  down  with  me."    But  he would refuse and  would  say to his master's wife --  "Here, my master does  not  know what is with me in the house,  and everything he has  he has given to my hand.    There is no one greater than I  am, and he has  not  withheld from  me anything  at all  except you, because  you  are his wife.     So  how could  I commit this great badness and actually sin against God?"    So  it turned out  that as  she spoke to Joseph day  after day  he never  listened to her to lie alongside her,  to continue with her.    But  it happened  that on this  day as other days he went into the house  to do his  business,  and there was none of the men  of the  house  there in the house.   Then  she grabbed hold of him by his  garment, saying  -- "Lie down with me!"   But  he left his  garment  in her hand  and took to flight  and went on  outside.   So it  occurred that  as soon as  she saw  that he  had left  his  garment in her  hand that he might flee outside,  she began to cry out to men of  her house  and to say  to them -- "Look!   He  brought to us a man, a Hebrew, to make us  a laughingstock.   He came to  lie  down with me, but  I began  to cry out  at the top  of my voice.     And  it   followed  that as soon as he heard that I raised my voice and began crying out, he  then left his  garment beside me  and took  to flight   and went on outside."     After  that she kept  his garment  laid up  beside her until his  master came  to his house.    Then she spoke to him  according to these words, saying -- "The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came to me to make a laughingstock.   But it followed that  as soon as I raised my voice and began to cry out, he then  left  his garment beside me and fleeing  outside."    The  result was  that as soon  as his  master heard the words of  his wife  which she spoke to him,  saying -- "like this and this your servant did to me,"  his  anger blazed.  So  Joseph's  master  took him and gave  him over to the prison house,  the  place where the prisoners of the king were kept under arrest, and   he continued there  in the prison house.   However, God continued with Joseph and kept  extending  loving kindness to him and granting  him to find favor in the eyes  of the chief  officer of the prison  house.   So the chief officer  of the prison house gave over into Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison  house --  and everything  that they were doing  there he proved to be the one having it done.    The chief officer  of the prison house  was looking after  absolutely nothing that was  in his hand, because  God  was with Joseph and what he was doing-- God was making it turn out successful.         40  Now after these things  it came  about that  the cupbearer  of the king of Egypt  and the baker sinned against  their    

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lord the king of Egypt.     And Pharaoh grew  indignant  at his  2 officers,  at the chief of the cupbearers and chief of the bakers.  So he committed them to the jail of the house of the chief of the bodyguard, to the prison house, the place where Joseph was a prisoner.  Then the chief of the bodyguard assigned Joseph to be with them that he might wait upon them -- and they continued in jail for some days.   And  both of them proceeded to dream a dream, each one his own dream with its own interpretation,  the cupbearer and the baker who belong to the king of Egypt who were prisoners in the prison house.   When Joseph  came in to them in the morning and saw them, why, there they were looking dejected.    And he began to inquire of the officers of the Pharaoh  who were with him in the jail of his master's house, saying -- "For what reason are your faces are gloomy today?"  At this they  said to him -- "We have dreamed a dream,  and there is no interpreter with us."    So Joseph said to them --  "Do not interpretations belong to God?"   Relate it to me, please."   And the chief of the cupbearers went on to relate his dream to  Joseph and to say to him -- ""In my dream, why,  here there was a vine before me.  And on the vine there were 3 twigs,  and it was apparently sprouting shoots.   It's  blossoms push forth.   Its clusters ripened  their grapes.   And Pharaoh's  cup was in my hand, and I proceeded to  take the grapes and squeeze them out into  Pharaoh's cup.   After that I gave the cup into  Pharaoh's hand."    Then Joseph said to him -- "This is its nterpretation--  the 3 twigs are 3 days.  In  3 days from now the  Pharaoh  will lift your head and he will certainly  return you to your office -- and you will certainly give  Pharaoh's cup into his hand,  according to the former custom when you acted as  his  cupbearer.      Nevertheless,  you  must keep me in your  remembrance  as soon    as it gives well  with  you,  and you must, please,  perform loving kindness  with me and mention me to  Pharaoh,  and you must  get me out of this house.   For I was in fact kidnapped from  the  land of the Hebrews -- and here also  I have  done nothing  at all  for which  they should put me in prison hole."     When the chief of the bakers  saw  that he  had  interpreted   something  good, he,  in turn, said to Joseph -- "I too  was  in my  dream,  and here there were  3  baskets of white bread upon my head, and in the topmost  basket  there were all sorts  of eatables  for Pharaoh, the product of a baker,  and there were  fowls eating them out of the basket on top of my head."    Then Joseph  answered  and  said -- "This is the interpretation -- The 3 baskets were 3 days.     In 3 days from now the Pharaoh  will lift up your head from off you and will certainly  hang you upon a stake --  and the fowls will  certainly  eat your flesh  from off you."     Now  on the 3rd day  it turned  out to be  Pharaoh's   birthday,  and he  proceeded   to make a feast for all  his servants and  to lift up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the  head of the  chief of the bakers in midst of the servants.      According  he returned  the  chief of the cupbearers  to his  post  of  cupbearer, and he continued to give the  cup into Pharaoh's  hand.    But  the chief  of the  bakers  he hung up,  just    

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  as Joseph  had given them the interpretation.   However, the chief of the cupbearer  

did not remember  Joseph and went on  forgetting him.           41    And  it came about  at the end of 2 full  years  that   Pharaoh  was dreaming  and here  he was standing by the  river Nile.   And  here ascending  out  of the river Nile were  7  cows  beautiful in appearance and fat fleshed and feeding themselves among Nile grass.    And here  there were 7 other cows  ascending  after them  out of the  river Nile,  ugly  in appearance  and thin fleshed,  and they took  their stand  alongside the cows  by the bank  of  the river Nile.   Then the cows that were ugly  in appearance and thin fleshed began to eat up the 7 cows  that were beautiful in appearance  and fat.  At this Pharaoh woke up.   However,  he went back to sleep and  dreamed a  2nd  time.   And  here there  were 7 ears of grain  coming up on  the  stalk, fat and good.     And here were  7 ears of grain, thin and scorched  by the east wind --  growing  up after them.    And the  thin ears of grain  began to swallow  up the 7 fat  and full ears of grain.      At this  Pharaoh  woke up  and here it was  a dream.    And it developed  in the morning that his spirit  became  agitated.   So he  sent and called   all the  magic practicing priests  of  Egypt and all the wise men,  and Pharaoh went on to  relate his dreams to them.  But there was no interpreter  of them  for Pharaoh.    Then  the chief of the  cupbearer spoke  with Pharaoh,  saying --  "My sins I am mentioning today.    Pharaoh  was  indignant  at his servant.  So  he committed me to the jail of the house of the  chief of the bodyguard, both me and the chief of the bakers.   After that  we both dreamed a dream  in the one night, both I and he.    We dreamed each one his own dream with its own interpretation.   And there was  with us  there a  young man, a Hebrew, a  servant of the  chief of the  bodyguard.    When  we  related  them to him, he proceeded  to interpret  our dreams  to us.  He  interpreted each according  to his dream.   And it turned out that just as he  had interpreted  to us so it  happened.    Me he returned to my  office,   but  him  he  hanged."      And Pharaoh  proceeded  to send nd to call  Joseph,  that they might  bring him quickly  form  the prison hole.   Hence  he shaved and changed his  mantles clothes and went in to Pharaoh.   Then  Pharaoh said  to Joseph -- "I have dreamed a dream, but there is no interpreter of it.     Now I  myself have heard it said  about  you that you  can hear a dream and  interpret it."   At  this  Joseph answered  Pharaoh, saying -- "I need not be considered!   God will announce welfare  to Pharaoh."     And Pharaoh went on to speak to Joseph --  "In my dream here  I was standing  on  the bank   of the river Nile.   And  here  ascending  out the river  Nile  were  7   cows  fat  fleshed  and beautiful  to feed  among the Nile grass.    And here  there were 7 other cows ascending  after them,  poor and very  bad in form and thin fleshed.   For badness  I have  not seen the like of them  in  all the land of Egypt.   And  the skinny and bad cows began  to eat up the  1st 7 fat cows.    So  these  came into  their bellies,  and yet it could  not be known  that they  had come  into their bellies,  as their  appearance was bad  just as  at  the start.  At  that  I woke up.  

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  "After that I saw in my dream and here there were 7 ears of grain coming up  on 1 stalk, full and good.   And  here  there were 7  ears of grain shriveled, thin, scorched  by the  east wind,  growing  up after them.     And the  thin ears of grain began to swallow up the 7  good  ears of grain.     So  I stated it to the magic  practicing priests, but there was none  telling me."   Then Joseph  said  to  Pharaoh --  "The dream of Pharaoh is but one.   What the true God is doing  he  has told to the Pharaoh.  The 7 good cows are years.   Likewise the  7 good ears of grain are 7 years.   The dream is but one.   And the 7   skinny  and bad cows that came up  after them are 7  years -- and  the 7  empty ears of grain,   scorched by the east wind, will prove to be  7 years of famine.   This is  the thing that  I have spoken to Pharaoh --  What the true God is doing  he has caused the Pharaoh  to see.    "Here  there  are  7 years  coming  with great  plenty in all the land of  Egypt.  But the   7 years of famine  will certainly arise after  them, and all the plenty in the land of  Egypt  will certainly  be forgotten and the famine will simply  consume the land.   And  the plenty once  in the land will not be known as  a result of that  famine afterward,  because it certainly will be severe.   And the fact that the dream  was repeated to Pharaoh 2wice means  that the thing is firmly established   on the part of  the true God,  and the true God  is speeding to do it."     So now let Pharaoh  look for a man discreet  and wise and set him over  the land of Egypt.      Let  Pharaoh  act and  appoint overseers over the land,  and he must take  up  1/5 of the Egypt   during 7 years of plenty.   And let them collect all the foodstuffs  of these coming  good years,  and let them pile up grain under  Pharaoh's hand  as foodstuffs  in the cities,  and they must safeguard it.     And the foodstuffs  must serve as a supply for the  land for the 7 famine years,  which will develop in the  land of  Egypt,  in order  that the land may not be cut off by  the  famine."   Well,  the thing  proved to be good in the eyes of  Pharaoh and of all his  servants.      So Pharaoh  said to his servants --"Can  another  man be found like this one in whom the  spirit of God is?"    After  that Pharaoh  said to Joseph -- "Since  God has caused you to know all this, there is no one as  discreet  and wise  as you  are.  You  will  personally be over at my house, and all my people will obey you  implicitly.    Only  as  to the throne  shall I be greater than you."   And Pharaoh added  to Joseph -- "See,  I do place you over all the land of Egypt."      With that Pharaoh  removed his  signet  ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and clothed him  with garments  of fine linen and placed a  necklace  of gold about  his neck.    Moreover, he had him  ride in the  2nd chariot of honor that he had,  so  that  they should  call out ahead of him,  "Avrekh"    thus putting him over all the land of Egypt.      And  Pharaoh  further said  to Joseph  -- "I am  Pharaoh,  but without your authorization, no man  may  lift up his hand or foot in all the land of     Egypt." After that   Pharaoh  called Joseph's name Zaphenathpaneah and gave  him  Asenath the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On as a wife.       And Joseph began to go out over the land of Egypt.   And    Joseph   

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  was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh the king of Egypt.    Then Joseph went out from before Pharaoh and toured about in all the land of Egypt.    And during the 7 years of plenty the land went on producing by the handfuls.    He kept collecting all the foodstuffs of the 7 years that came upon the land of Egypt and he would put the foodstuffs in the cities. The foodstuffs of the field that was round about a city he put in the midst of it. And Joseph continued piling up grain in very great quantity, like the sand of the sea, until finally they gave up counting it, because it was without number.    And before the year of the famine arrived there were born to Joseph 2 sons, whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him. So Joseph called the name of the 1stborn Manasseh, because, to quote him, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all the house of his father."    And the name of the  2nd he called Ephraim, because, to quote him, "God has made me fruitful in land of my wretchedness."     And the 7 years of the plenty that had obtained in the land of Egypt gradually ended, and, in turn, the 7 years of famine started to come, just as Joseph had said. And the Famine developed in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was found bread.     Finally all  the land of Egypt became famished and the people began to cry out to Pharaoh for bread.    Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians -- "Go to Joseph. Whatever he says to you, you are to do." And the famine obtained over all the surface of the earth. Then Joseph began to open up all the grain depositories that were among them and to sell to the Egyptians, as the famine got a strong grip on the land of Egypt. Moreover, people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy from Joseph, because the famine had a strong grip on all the earth.       42    Eventually Jacob  got to see that  there were cereals in Egypt.     Then  Jacob said to his sons -- "Why  do you keep looking  at one another?"  And  he added -- "Here  I  have heard  that there  are  cereals in Egypt.  Go  down  there  and buy for us  from there,  that we may keep alive  and not die off."   Accordingly  !0  brothers of Joseph went  down  to buy grain  from Egypt.   But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his other brothers, because he said -- "Otherwise  a fatal  accident  may  befall  him."   So Israel's  sons  came  along with   the others who  were coming  to buy,  because the famine existed  in the land  of  Canaan.     And  Joseph was  the    man in power over the land.    He was  the one that  did  the  selling  to all  the people of the  earth.    When  Joseph  got  to see his   brothers, he at once  recognized  them,  but he  made himself  unrecognizable  to  them.    So he spoke  harshly  with  them and said to them --  "Where  have  come from?"   to which  they said  --  "From  the land of Canaan  to buy foodstuffs."     Thus Joseph recognized his brothers,  but  they themselves  did  not recognize him.     Immediately   Joseph  remembered  that he had  dreamed   respecting them,  and  he went  on  to say  to them -- "You  are  spies!  You have  come to see  the exposed  condition  of the land!"      Then   they  said  to him  --  "No,   

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  my lord,  but your servants have  come  to  buy foodstuffs.  We  are all of us sons of but one man.   We are upright  men.   Your servants  do not  act  as  spies."     But  he said to them  --  "Not so!   Because you have come to see  the exposed  condition of the  land!"    At  this they said --  "Your servants are 12 brothers.   We are the sons of  but one man   in  the land of Canaan -- and here the youngest  is with our father today,  whereas  the other one is no more."    However,   Joseph said  to them -- "It is what I  have spoken  to  you, saying,  'You  are  spies!'   By this   you will be  tested out.   As  Pharaoh  lives,  you will not go out of here  except when your  youngest brother  comes  here.     Send one of you that  he may get  your brother while  you  have been bound,  that your words may be tested out as the truth in your case.   And if not,  then,  as Pharaoh lives,  you are spies."       With  that he put them  together in custody for 3 days.    After  that Joseph  said to them on the 3rd day -- "Do this  keep alive,   I fear  the  true God.     If you are  upright,   let one of your  brothers  be kept bound  in your house of custody,  but the    rest of you go,  take cereals for famine  in  your houses.   Then you will  bring your youngest brother to me, that  your words may be found  trustworthy --  and you will not  die."   And they proceeded to do so.  And they  began  to say  one to the other -- "Unquestionably  we are guilty  with  regard  to  our brother,  because we saw the  distress  of his soul  when he implored  compassion  on our part,  we  did not  listen.   That is why this   distress has come upon us."   Then  Reuben answered  them,  saying -- "Did  not  I say  to  you,  'Do  not sin against the child,  but you did not listen?    And now  his blood,  here it is  certainly  asked back."   As  for them,  they did  not know  that Joseph was listening,  because there was an interpreter between them.    Consequently  he turned away from  them  and began  to weep.   Then  he returned to them and spoke  to them and took Simeon  from them and bound him  before their eyes.     After that Joseph gave  the command,  and  they went filling up  their  receptacles  with grain.    Also,  they were   to return  the money of the men  to each one's  individual sack and give them  provisions  for  the journey.    Accordingly  it was done so to them.   So they  loaded  their   cereals upon their  asses and got on their way  from there.    When  one opened his sack to  give fodder  to  his  ass at the lodging  place,  he  got to see  his  money,  and here it was  in  the mouth  of his bag.     At that he said to his brothers -- "My money has been returned  and  now here it is  in my  bag!"     Then their hearts sank,  so that they  turned trembling  to  one another,  saying -- "What  is this that God has done to us?"   At length  they came  to  Jacob their father  to the land  of  Canaan, and told  him all the things that had  befallen  them,  saying --  "The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly   with us,   since  he took us for men spying on  the country.    But we  said to  him,  'We are  upright men.  We do not act as   spies.   We are 12 brothers, the sons of our father.   One   is no more,   and the  youngest is  today with our father  in Canaan.    But  the man  who is the lord  of the country  said to us,  'By this I  am going to  know  you are upright --  Have  one  brother  of yours stay  with me.     

  

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   Then you take something  for the famine  in your houses and go.    And   bring your youngest brother to me,  that  I  may  know that you are no spies but your are  upright.   Your brother I shall give back to you, and  you may  carry on business  in the land."   And  it came about  that when they  were  emptying  their  sacks here was  each  one's  bundle of money in his sack.    And they as well as  their father  got to see  their bundles of money, and they  became afraid. Then  Jacob  their father exclaimed  to them --  "It is I you have   bereaved!   Joseph is  no more and  Simeon is no more,  and  Benjamin you are going to take!    It is upon me  that all  these things have  come!"    But  Reuben  said to his  father -- "My own 2 sons you   may  put to death  if    I    do  not  bring him back to you.    Give him over  to my care, I  shall  be the one to  return him to you."    However,  he said -- "My son will not go  down with you men, because his brother is dead and he has been left  by himself.    If  a fatal  accident should  befall  him on the way  on which you would  go,   then you  would  certainly bring  down  my gray hairs  with grief to Sheol."        43    And the famine  was severe in the land.   And   it came about that as soon as they  had finished eating  up the cereals  they brought from Egypt, their father  proceeded to say  to them --"Return, buy a  little food for us."     Then  Judah said to him -- "The man  unmistakably  bore witness to us,  saying,  'You must not see my face again unless your brother  is with you.'     If  you are sending our brother with us,   we  are  willing to go down  and buy food for you.    But  if you are not sending him,  we  shall  not go  down,   because  the man   did say to us,  'You must not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"        And Israel  exclaimed -- "Why did you  have  to do harm to me  by telling  the man you had another brother?"     At  this  they  said -- "The man  directly inquired  concerning  us and our relatives,  saying,  'Is  your father  yet alive?   Do you  have another brother?    and we went  on to tell him according  to these  facts.   How  could  we  know  for  certain  that he would say,  'Bring, your  brother  down'?"    Finally  Judah said to Israel  his father -- "Send the boy with me,   that we may get up and go  and that  we may keep alive and not die  off,  both  we and you and  our  little children.    I  shall  be the one  to be surety for him.   Out  of my hand you  may  exact the penality for him.     If  I fail to  bring him to you  and  present him  to you,  then  I shall have  sinned against you for all time.      But  if  we had not  lingered around,  we should  by  now have  been there and back these 2 times."    So  Israel  their  father said  to  them -- "If,  then,  that is the case,  do this -- Take  the finest products of the land in your  receptacles  and  carry them down  to the man  as  a gift --  a  little  balsam, and a little honey,  labdanum  and  resinous bark,  pistachios  nuts  and  almonds.    Also,  take  double the money that was returned in the mouth  of your  bags you will take back in  your hand.     Maybe  it was mistake.    And  take your brother and get up,  return to the man.     And may   God  Almighty  give you  pity before the man, that he may certainly release to you  your other brother and Benjamin.     But I,  in case  I  must be bereaved,  I shall certainly  be  bereaved!"     Accordingly  the  men took this gift,   and  they  took double the money   in  their  hand   and  Benjamin.   Then  they  rose  and went their  way  down to Egypt.    

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and got to  stand  before  Joseph.  When  Joseph  saw Benjamin with them, he at once  said to the man who was over  his house --  "Take  the men to the house and slaughter   animals and make preparation,  because  the men  are to eat with  me at noon."   Immediately  the man did  just as Joseph had said.   So  the man took the men to Joseph's house.  But the men got afraid because   they had been taken to  Joseph's  house,   and they began to say --  "It is because of the money  that we went  back with us in our  bags  at the start  that we are being brought here for them to  fall upon  us and attack us and to take us for slaves and also our asses!"    Hence  they  approached the man  who was over Joseph's  house  and spoke  to  him  at the entrance of the house, and  they said -- "Excuse us,  my lord!     We  surely  did come  down at the start to buy  food.   But  what occurred was that when we came to the lodging place and began opening our bags,  why, here was the money in full weight.   So we are returning it with our own hands.    We have brought more money to buy food.    We certainly do not know who placed our money in our bags.    Then he said, "It is all right with you.   Do not be afraid.  Your God and God of  your  father gave you treasures in your bags.    Your money came 1st to me."     After  that he brought out Simeon to them.   Then  the man brought men into Joseph's  house and  gave water  that they might  have their feet  washed, and  he gave fodder for their asses.   And  they  proceeded to get the gift  ready for Joseph's  coming at noon,  because  they  had heard  that it was  there they were going  to eat bread.   When Joseph went  on into the house,  and prostrated  themselves to him to the earth.  (Lay face down with arms stretched out at the sides to the earth).   After  this he inquired whether they  were getting along  well and said  --  "Is  your father, the aged man of whom  you have spoken,  getting along well?     Is  he still alive?"   To this they said --  "Your servant our father is getting  along well.  He is still alive."    Then  they bowed  down  and prostrated  themselves.  When   he raised his eyes  and saw Benjamin  his brother,  the son of his mother, he went  on to say -- "Is  this your brother,  the youngest  one of whom you have  spoken to  me?"    And he added -- "May God  show  you  his favor, my son."  Joseph was  now in a hurry,  because his  inward emotions  were excited toward his brother,  So that he looked for a place to weep  and he went into an  interior room and gave way to tears there.     After  that he washed his face and  went out kept control of himself and said -- "Set  on the meal."   And they  proceeded to set  it on for him by himself and for them  by themselves -- for the Egyptians  were not able to eat a meal  with the Hebrews,  because that  is  a detestable  thing to Egyptians.   And they were seated before him,  the  1stborn according to his right as 1stborn, and the youngest according to  his youngness --  and the men kept  looking one  other  in amazement.      And he kept having portions carried from  before him to them,   but  he would increase  Benjamin's portion  5 times the size of the  portions of all the  others.   So they  continued  banqueting  

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 and  drinking  with him to the  full.        44   Later  on he commanded  the man  who  

was over his  house,  saying -- "Fill  the bags  of the men with food  to the extent  they  are able to carry  it  and place the money  of  each  one in  the mouth of his bag.    But you must place my cup,  the silver cup,  in the mouth of the bag of the youngest and money for the cereals."    So he did according to the word of Joseph  which he had spoken.   The morning had become  light when the men were sent away,  both they and their  asses.   They  went out of the city.  They had not gone far  when Joseph said to the man who was over  his house -- "Get up!   Chase  after the  men and to say to them -- 'Why have you repaid bad for good?   Is  not this  thing that my master drinks from and by  means of which he expertly  reads omens?    It is a bad deed you have committed.'"     Eventually  he overtook them  spoke  these words  to them.   But they said to him -- 'Why does  my  lord speak with  such  words as these?   It is unthinkable  that your  servants  should  do  anything like this.     Why  the money that  we found in the mouth of the bags we  brought back to you from  the land of  Canaan.     How,  then,   could we steal silver or gold  from the house of your master?   Let  the one of  your slaves  with  whom it may be found  die and let  us ourselves also  become  slaves  to  my master."    So  he said  -- "Let  it be now  exactly  according  to your words.   Thus  the  one  with whom  it may be found  will become  a slave to me,  but you yourselves will be proved innocent!   With  that  they quickly  let down  each one  his  bag to the earth and they opened  each  one his own bag.    And  he  went  searching  carefully.   He started with  oldest and  finished with the youngest.   At  last the cup  was  found in Benjamin's bag.    Then they ripped their  mantles apart  and lifted  each one his load  back onto his ass and  returned to the city.      And   Judah and his brothers went on  into Joseph's house,  and  he was still there --  and  they proceeded  to fall  before him to the earth.     Joseph  now said to them -- "What  sort of deed is this  that you have done?    Did  you not know that such  a man  as  I am   can expertly  read omens?"     At this  Judah  exclaimed  -- "What can we say to my master?     What can we speak?   And how can we prove ourselves righteous?     The true God has found out the error of your slaves.   Here we  are slaves  to my  master,  both we and the one in whose  hand the  cup was found."      However,  he said -- "It is unthinkable for me to do this!    The man  in  whose hand the cup was found  is the one who will  become a slave to me.    As  for  the rest of you,   go  up in peace to your  father."      Judah  now came  near to him and said -- "I pray  you, my  master,  please  let your slave  speak a word in  the hearing of  my master, and  do not  let your anger grow hot  against your slave, because it  is   the same with you as Pharaoh.     My master asked  his slaves,  saying,  'Do you have a father or a brother?'    So  we said  to my master,  'We do have an  aged  father and a child  of his old age,  the youngest.   But  his brother is dead  so that he alone is left of his mother, and his father  does love him.''    After  that you said to your slaves,  "Bring  him down  to  

  

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me that I may set my eye upon him.   But we said  to my master,  'The boy is not able to leave his father.   If he did leave his father, he would  certainly die.'    Then  you said  to your slaves,  'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you,  you may not see my face  anymore.'   "And it  came about that we went up to  your  slave my father and then told him the words  of my master.     Later our Father said -- "Return,  buy  a little food  for us.'    But  we said--  'We are not able to go down.  If our youngest brother is with us we will go down, because we  are not able to see  the man's  face  in  case our  youngest brother is not with us.'     Then your slave my father said to us--'You  yourselves well  know  that my wife bore but 2 sons to me.   Later the one went out from my company and I   exclaimed -- "Ah,  he must surely be torn to pieces!"  and I have not seen him till now.      If you were to  take this one  also out of my sight  and  a fatal  accident were to befall  him, you would certainly bring down   my gray hairs with  calamity to  Sheol.'     "And now,  as  soon as  I should  come down  to  your slave  my  father without the boy  along  with us,  when  that one's soul is bound up  with this one's soul   then it is  certain to occur that as soon as   he sees  that  the boy is not there  he will  simply die,  and your slaves  will indeed bring down  the gray hairs of your slave our father with grief to  Sheol.   For your slave  became  surety for the boy when away  from  his father, saying --  'If  I fail to bring him back to  you,   then  I shall have sinned  against my father forever.'    So now,  please,   let your slave stay instead of the boy  as slave to my master,  that the boy  may go  up with  his brothers.     For how can I go up  to  my father without the boy along with me,  for fear that  then I  may  look upon the calamity that  will   find out my father?"      45   At this Joseph was  no longer  able to control himself  before all those who  were stationed  by him.   So he cried out    -- "Have  everybody go  out from  me!"   And no one else stood  with him while   Joseph made himself  known to his brothers.    And he  began to raise his voice in  weeping,  so that the Egyptians  got to hear it  and Pharaoh's house  got to hear it.     Finally Joseph  said  to  his brothers -- "I am Joseph.   Is my father still alive?"   But  his  brothers  were  unable to answer him at all, because they were disturbed by  reason  of him.  So  Joseph said to   his brothers  --  "Come close to me, please."   With  that they  came close to him.   Then he  said -- "I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.     But  now do not feel hurt and  do  not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here -- because for  the  preservation  of life God  has sent me ahead of you.    For  this is the 2nd year of  the famine  in the midst of the earth,  and  there  are yet 5 years  in which  there  will be no  plowing  time of harvest.      Consequently  God sent me ahead  of you  in order  to place a remnant  for  you men  in the earth   and to keep  you alive by a great escape.     So  now  it  was was not you who sent me here,   but it was the true that  God, that  he might  appointed me a father to  Pharaoh and  a lord  for all his   house and as  one  dominating  over all the land of Egypt.    "Go  up quickly to  my father and  you must say to him, "This is what  your son Joseph has  said-- "God has  appointed  me lord for all Egypt.   Come down to me.   Do not delay.    And you must  

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Dwell  in the land of Goshen,  and  you  must continue  near me,  you and your sons and  the sons of your sons and  your flocks  and  your herds and everything you have.     And  I will supply  with food  there,  for there are yet  5 years of famine -- for  fear  you and your house and everything you have may come to poverty.      And  here your eyes and  the  eyes of my brother Benjamin  are  seeing that  it is  my mouth that is speaking to you.     So you must tell my father about all of my glory in Egypt and everything that you have seen --  and you must hurry  and bring my father  down here."     Then  he  fell upon the neck of  Benjamin  his  brother and  gave  way  to weeping,  and  Benjamin wept upon his neck.    And he  proceeded to kiss all his brothers and weep  over them,  and after  that his  brothers spoke  with  him.      And  the news  was heard at  the house of  Pharaoh, saying  --  "Joseph's brothers  have come!"    And  it proved to be good in the eyes of the Pharaoh  and of his servants.    Accordingly Pharaoh said to Joseph --"Say to your brothers, 'Do this--Load your beasts  of burden and  go  enter  the land of Canaan,  and  take your father  and your  households and come  here to me,  that I  may  give you  the good  of the land of Egypt -- and eat the fat part of the land.     And  you yourself  are commanded -- "Do  this -- Take  for yourselves  wagons from  the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives,   and  you must lift your father  on  one and come here.       And do not let your eye feel sorry over your equipment, because the good of  all the  land of  Egypt is yours."'"     Following that the  sons of Israel did so,  and  Joseph gave them wagons according to   Pharaoh's  orders and gave them  provisions  for the  way.     To  each of  them he gave individual  changes  of mantles,  but to  Benjamin  he  gave 300 silver  pieces   and  5 changes of  mantles.    And to his  father he sent  as follows --  10  asses  carrying good things of Egypt  and  10   she- asses carrying grain and bread and  sustenance for  his father for the way.       Thus  he sent his brothers off,   and they proceeded  to go.   However,  he  said to them -- "Do  not  get exasperated   at  one  another on the way."      And  they began going  up out of Egypt and   at length  came into the land of  Canaan to Jacob their father.    Then they  reported to him,  saying --  "Joseph is still alive,  and he  is the one  dominating  over  all the land of  Egypt!"   But his heart  grew  numb,  because  he  did  not  believe them.    When  they went  on speaking  to him  all  of Joseph's words  that  he had spoken  to them and he got  to see the  wagons that Joseph  had sent to carry him,  the spirit of  Jacob  their  father  began  to revive.   Then  Israel  exclaimed  -- "It is enough!   Joseph   my son is still alive!   Ah,  let me go and see him before  die!"         46   According  Israel and all who were his pulled  out and came  to  Beersheba,   and   he  proceeded to  sacrifice  sacrifices   to  the God of  his father Isaac.   Then God talked to Israel in  visions of  the night and said -- "Jacob, Jacob"   to  which   he said -- "Here I am!"    And  he went  on to say  --  "I am  the  true God, the  God of your father.   Do  not  be  afraid to go down to Egypt,  and I myself shall surely  bring you, up  also --  and  Joseph will lay his hand upon your eyes."  

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  After  that Jacob  got up out of Beersheba,   and the sons of Israel continued transporting  Jacob their father  and their  little ones  and, their wives in  the wagons  that Pharaoh  had sent to  transport  him.      Further, they  took along  their herds  and their goods,  which they  had accumulated  in  the land  of Canaan.   Eventually they came into Egypt,  Jacob  and all  his  offspring with  him.     He brought his sons and his sons with  him,  his daughters and his sons' daughters,  even all his  offspring with him into Egypt.     Now  these are the names of Israel's sons who came into Egypt -- Jacob and  his sons -- Jacob's 1stborn was Reuben,   And  the sons of Reuben  were  sons were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, Carmi --   And sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.   And the   sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath  and  Merari.    And the sons of Judah were Er, Onan,  Shelah, Perez, Zerah.    However,  Er and Onan died in  the land of Canaan --   And the sons of Perez   came to be called  Hezron and Hamul.   The sons of Isasachar were Tola,  Puvah, Iob, Shimron.     And the sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, Jahleel.    These  are the sons of Leah,  whom she bore  to Jacob in Paddanaram,   together with his daughter Dinah.    All  the  souls of his sons and of his  daughters  were  33.    And  the sons of Gad were Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni  and Ezbon,  Eri  and Arodi and  Areli.   And the sons of Asher were Imnah  and  Ishvah and Ishvi  and  Beriah,  and there was Serah their sister.    And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.    These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban  gave to  his daughter Leah.    In time she bore these to Jacob -- 16 souls.   The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife,  were Joseph and Benjamin.       And  there came  to be  born to Joseph  in the land of  Egypt  Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him. And the sons of Benjamin were Bela  and Becher  and  Ashbel, Gera and  Naaman, Ehi  and Rosh, Muppim  and Huppin and Ard.     These are the sons of Rachel  who were  born to Jacob.   All the souls  were  14.   And   the sons of Dan were Hushim.   And the sons of  Naphtali were Jahzeel,  and Guni  and Jezer and Shillem --       These  are the sons of Bilhah, whom Leban gave to his daughter Rachel.   In time  she bore  these to  Jacob --  all the   souls  were 7.     All the souls  who came  to  Jacob  into Egypt were  those  who issued  out of his upper thigh,  aside  from the wives of  Jacob's  sons.   All the  souls  were  66.    And Joseph's sons  who were    born to him in  Egypt were  2 souls.   All  the souls  of the house of Jacob   who came  into  Egypt  were 70.   And he  sent Judah  in advance of him  to Joseph  to  impart information  ahead of him  to  Goshen.   After that  they came into   

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  the  land of Goshen.    Then  Joseph  had his chariot   made ready and went up to meet  Israel his father  at Goshen.   When  he  appeared  to him  he at once  fell upon  the neck and  gave way to tears  upon his  neck again and again.     Finally Israel said to Joseph  -- "This  time  I am willing  to die,  now  that I have seen  your  face,  since you are still  alive."    Then Joseph said  to  his brothers  and to his father's  household -- "Let me  go up and report to  Pharaoh  and say  to  him,  'My  brothers  and my father's household  who were in the land of  Canaan  have come here to me.   And the men are  shepherds,   because  they became stock raisers,   and  their flocks, and their herds and all they have  brought  here.   And  what  must  occur  is that  when  Pharaoh will call you and actually  say,  'What is your occupation?'    You  must say, ' Your  servants have continued  to be stock  raisers from  our  youth, until now,  both we and  our  forefathers,'    in order that you may dwell  in the land of  Goshen,   because every herder  of sheep  is  a  detestable  thing  to  Egypt."        47    Accordingly  Joseph  came  and reported to  Pharaoh  and said --  "My  father and my brothers  and  their flocks  and  their  herds  and all they have  come  from  the land of Canaan,  and  here  they  are  in the land of  Goshen."    And from  the whole  number  of his  brothers  he  took 5 men,  that he  might present them to  Pharaoh.   Then  Pharaoh  said to his  brothers  --  "What   is  your  occupation?"     so  they  said to Pharaoh  --  "Your servants are herders of sheep,  both  we and  our forefathers."    After  that they said  to Pharaoh  --  "We have  come  to reside  as aliens in the land,  because  there is  no pasturage for flock  that your servants  have,  for the  famine is severe in the land of Canaan.     And  now  let your servants dwell, please,  in the land of  Goshen."    At that   Pharaoh  said to  Joseph -- "Your father and  your brothers have come here  to you.   The  land of Egypt  is at your disposal.     Have your father and  your brothers  dwell  in  the very  best of the land.   Let them  dwell in the  land of  Goshen,  and if you  know  that there are  among them  courageous men, you must appoint them cattle chiefs over what is  mine."      Then  Joseph brought  in  Jacob his  father  and introduced  him  to Pharaoh,  and Jacob proceeded  to bless Pharaoh.  Pharaoh  now said  to  Jacob -- "How many  are the days of years did you live?" Jacob answered, "130 years as an alien, few distressing years of  your life?"   So  Jacob  said to Pharaoh --  "The  days  of  the years of my alien  residences  are a 130 years.   Few  and distressing  the days of the years of my life have proved,  and they have not reached  the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their alien  residences."    After that  Jacob blessed Pharaoh  and went  out from  before  Pharaoh.   Thus  Joseph  had his father and his  brothers  dwell  and he gave  them  a possession  in the land of  Egypt,  in the very best of the land of Rameses, just as  Pharaoh  had  commanded.   And  Joseph  kept supplying his  father and  his brothers  and the entire  household of his father with  bread,  according  to the number  of the  little ones."      Now  there was no bread in all the land, because famine was  very severe --  and the land of    Egypt and  the land of  Canaan  became exhausted  as a result of the famine.   And  Joseph  went  on picking  up all the money  that was to be  found in   

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   the land of Egypt and in the land of  Canaan  for the cereals  which people were buying  -- and  Joseph kept  bringing money into   Pharaoh's   house.   In time the  money from  the land of Egypt and  the land of  Canaan was spent,   and all the  Egyptians  began coming  to Joseph,  saying -- "Give us bread!   And  why should we die in front of you because money has run out?"   Then  Joseph  said -- "hand over your livestock  and I shall give you bread in exchange for  your livestock,  if money has run out."     And they  began  bringing  their livestock  to  Joseph -- and  Joseph  kept  giving them bread in exchange for their horse  and the livestock  of the  flock and the livestock of the  herd and  the asses,  and he kept providing   them with   bread in exchange for all  their livestock during that year.        Gradually  that year  came  to its close,  and they began  coming  to him in the  next year  and saying to  him  --  "We  shall not  hide it  from  my lord  but the money and the stock of  domestic animals  have been spent  to my lord.   There  remains    nothing   before my lord  but   our bodies and our land.   Why should we die  before  your eyes,   both we and our land.    Buy us and our land for bread,  and together with our  land  will become  slaves to  Pharaoh  --  and give us seed that we may live and  not die and our land will not be laid desolate.      So  Joseph bought all the land of Egyptians for the  Pharaoh,   because  the Egyptian  sold each one his field, for the famine had  got a strong  grip on them --   and the land came to be  Pharaoh's.    As  for  the  people,   he  removed  them into the cities  from  one end of  the territory  of Egypt its  other end.      Only  the  land of the priests he did not buy,   because the rations  for the priests  were Pharoah  and they ate  their  rations  that  Pharaoh  gave them.    That  is why they did  not sell their land.      Then Joseph said to the  people -- "See,  I  have today  bought you and your land for  Pharaoh.  Here is  seed  for you, and you  must sow the land with it.   When it  has  resulted  in produce,  then you must give a  1/5 to  Pharaoh,  but  4 parts will become  yours  as seed for the field and  as food for you and for  those  who  are in your houses and  for your little ones to eat."   Consequently  they said -- "You have  preserved  our lives.    Let  us  find favor  in  the eyes  of my  lord,  and  will become slaves to   Pharaoh."    And  Joseph proceeded to make it  a decree  down  to  this day over landed estate of Egypt for  Pharaoh  to have  to the amount  of  a 5th.    Only  the land of  priests as   a distinct group  did not become  Pharaoh's.   And  Israel  continued to   dwell  in  the land of  Egypt,  in  the land of Goshen -- and they  became  settled in it  and  were  fruitful and  grew  to be very  many.     And  Jacob's days,  the years  of his life,  came to be  a 147  years.   Gradually the days approached  for  Israel to die.   So  he  called his son Joseph and said to him -- "If   now,  I have  found  favor in  your eyes,  place  your hand,  please, under my thigh,  and you must  exercise  loving-kindness and trustworthiness toward me.    (Please do  not bury me in Egypt.)   And  I,  must lie with my fathers,  and you must carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their grave."   Accordingly  he  said --  "I  myself  shall  do in  keeping  with your word."   Then  he  said  -- "Swear  to me."  So  he   swore to him.   At that  Israel   prostrated  himself  over  the head of the   couch.  

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48    And it  came  about  after these  things  that it was said to Joseph -- "Look,  your  father  is becoming weak."    At  that  he took with  him  his 2   sons  Manasseh  and  Ephraim.     Then it was reported  to  Jacob  and said  --  "Here  your  son  Joseph has  come  to you."    So  Israel  exerted  his strength  and sat up on his couch.   And Jacob  proceeded  to say to Joseph  --  "God  Almighty  appeared to me at Luz in the  land of Canaaan  that he might  bless me.  And  he  went  on to say to me --  'Here  I  am making  you fruitful,  and  I will  transform  you into  a  congregation of peoples  and  I  will give this  land  to your  seed  after  you for  a possession  to time  indefinite.'    And  now  your  2  sons  who  were  born  to you  in the land of Egypt  before I came  here to  you into  Egypt,  they  are mine.     Ephraim   and Manasseh  will  become mine  like Reuben and Simeon.     But your  progeny  to which you  shall  become  father  after them will become  yours.   Together  with  the  name of their brothers they will be called  in their  inheritance.    And  as for me, when I was  coming  from Paddan,  Rachel  died alongside  me  in the land of  Canaan on the way  while  there  was  yet a good stretch  of land  before coming to  Ephrath,  so  that  I buried  her there  on  the way  to  Ephrath,  that is to  say,   Bethlehem."     Then  Israel  saw Joseph's sons and  said  -- "Who  are these?"    So  Joseph  said  to his  father -- "They are my sons  whom  God  has  given  me  in this  place."    At this  he said -- "Bring  them,  please,  to me  that I may  bless them."    Now  the eyes  of  Israel  were  dull  from old age.    He  was  unable  to see.     Accordingly  he brought  them  close to him,  and he  then kissed  them  and embraced them.   And  Israel  went  on to say  to  Joseph -- "I  had no  idea of  seeing your face,  but here God  has let  me see also  your  offspring."   After  that   Joseph  brought  them  out away  from  his  knees,  and he  bowed  down  with  his face  to the earth.    Joseph now  took  the  2 of them,  Ephraim   by  his right  hand  to Israel's  left, and Manasseh  by his  hand  to Israel bowed down with his face to the earth. Joseph now took the 2 of them--Ephraim by his right hand to Israel's left, Manasseh's by left hand to Israel's right,   and brought them close to him.     However,  Israel  put  out  his right hand  and placed  it on  Ephraim's  head,  although he was the younger, and his left hand upon  Manasseh's  head.     He  purposely  laid his hands so, since Manasseh  was the 1stborn.      And  he  proceeded  to bless  Joseph   and  to say  -- "The  true God  before my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,   The true God who  has shepherding me  during all  my  existence until this  day.    The  angel  who has  been  recovering  me  from  all   calamity,  bless the boys.   And  let my name be called  upon them  and the name of my fathers,   Abraham and Isaac,   And let them  increase  to  a  multitude  in the midst of the earth."   When  Joseph  saw that his father kept  his right  hand  placed  on Ephraim's head,   it  was  displeasing  to him,  and he  tried to  take  hold  of his  father's   hand  to  remove it from Ephraim's   head to Manasseh's head.     Hence  Joseph said to   his  father --  "Not so,  my father,  because  this is the 1stborn.   Put  your right hand on his head."     But  his father   kept  refusing and said -- "I  know it, my son, I know  it,     

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  He  too  will  become a  people  and  he too  will  become  great.   But,    just  the same,  his younger  brother  will  become greater than  he will,  and  his offspring   will  become  the full equivalent of  nations."    And he  continued  to bless  them  on that day,  saying -- "By  means  of you  let  Israel   repeatedly  pronounce  blessing,  saying,  'May  God  constitute  you  like  Ephraim --may God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh." Thus he kept putting Ephraim before Manasseh.      After that Israel  said  to Joseph  -- "Look,  I  am dying,  but  God  will certainly continue with you people and  return  you to the land  of your forefathers.   As for me, I  do  l  give you  one  shoulder  of  land  more than  to  your  brothers,  which I took from  the hand of Amorites by my sword and by my law.         49   Later on  Jacob called  his sons and said -- "Gather  yourselves together that  I  may tell you  what will  happen to you  in the final part of his days.    Assemble  yourselves  and listen, you sons of Jacob,  yes,  listen  to Israel your father.  "Reuben, you are my 1stborn, my  vigor and  the    beginning of my generative power,  the excellence of dignity and excellence of strength.    With reckless  license like waters,  do not you excel, because you have gone up to your father's bed.    At that time you profaned  (disgraced) my  lounge.    He went up to it.    "Simeon and  Levi are  brothers.  Instruments  of violence are their slaughter weapons.   Into  their intimate group do not  come,  O my soul.  With their congregation do  not become  united,  O my  disposition,  because  in  their  anger  they  killed  men,  and in  their  arbitrariness  they hamstrung  bulls.   Cursed  be their anger, because it is cruel, and their fury, because it acts  harshly.   Let me  parcel  them out in  Jacob and let  me scatter  them in Israel.   "As  for  you,  Judah,  your  brothers will laud (praise)  you.   Your hand will be on the back of the necks of your enemies. The sons of your father will prostrate  themselves to you.  A  lion cub  Judah  is.    From the prey, my son, you will certainly go up.    He bowed down,  he  stretched  himself  out like a lion  and, like a lion,   who dares    rouse him?      The  scepter will not turn aside  from Judah, neither the   commander's  staff  from  between his feet,  until  Shiloh (peace) comes,  and to him the obedience of peoples will  belong.    Tying his full grown  ass   to a vine  the descendant of his own  she ass  to a choice  vine,  he will certainly wash his clothing   in wine and  and his  garment  in  the blood  of grapes.   Dark   red are his  eyes from wine,  and the whiteness  of his teeth  is from milk.      "Zebulun will  reside  by the seashore, and he   will be by the  shore where  the  ships  lie anchored,  and  his  remote side will be toward   Sidon.     "Issachar   is a strong boned  ass,  lying  down between 2 saddlebags.      And  he will  see that resting place is  good  and that  land is pleasant,   and he will bend down  his shoulder to bear burdens   and  become  subject  to slavish  forced   labor.     "Dan will judge his people as one of  the tribes of Israel.     Let  Dan prove to be a  serpent  by  the roadside,   a  horned snake  by  wayside,   that  bites the   heels  of the  horse  so  that its  rider   

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   falls   backward.    I  shall  indeed  wait for salvation from you O Jehovah. "  As  for Gad,  a marauder  band  will  raid  him,   but he will  raid  the  extreme  rear.    "Out of Asher  his bread will  be fat,   and he will  give the dainties  of  a king.   "Naphtali  is  a slender hind.  He  is giving  words  of elegance.   "Offshoot of a  fruit bearing tree  by  the  fountain,  that  propels  its branches  up over a wall.  But  the archers kept harassing  him  and shot at  him and  kept   harboring   animosity against him.  And  yet  his  bow was dwelling  in a  permanent place, and the strength  of  his  hands war  supple.   From  the  hands  of  Powerful One of  Jacobs,  from  there  is the Shepherd,  the Stone of Israel.   He  is from the God of your father,  and  he will help you -- and  he  is with  the  Almighty,  and  he will bless you  with the blessing  of   the heavens above,  with the blessings of  the  watery  deep  lying  down  below, with the blessing of breasts and womb.     The  blessings of  your father will  indeed  be superior   to  the blessings  of the eternal mountains, to the  ornament  of  the  indefinitely  lasting hills.    They  will  continue upon head of Joseph, even upon the crown of the head of the one singled out from his brothers.  "Benjamin  will keep  on tearig  life a wolf.   In the  morning  he  will eat the animal  seized and  at evening, he will divide the spoil."  All these are the  12 tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he was blessing them.     He blessed them  each one according  to his own blessing.   That  he commanded  them and said to them -- "I am being gathered to my people.    Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,  in the  cave  that  is  in the field  of  Machpelah  that is  in front of Mamre in  the  land of  Canaan,  the field that  Abraham  purchased  from Ephron  the Hittite  for the possession  of  a  burial place.   There  they buried  Abraham and Sarah his wife.   There they  buried Leah.     The field  purchased  and  the  cave  that  is in it were from  the  sons of Heth.     Thus  Jacob  finished  giving  commands  to his  sons.   then  he  gathered his feet up  onto  the couch and expired  and  was gathered to his people.         50   Then  Joseph fell upon  the  face of  his  father  and burst into  tears  over him and kissed him.   After that    Joseph   commanded his servants,  the physicians,  to  embalm his father.    So the physicians  embalmed  Israel,  and they  took fully  40 days for him,  for this  many days  they  customarily  take for embalming,  and  the  Egyptians continued  to  shed tears for  him  70 days.    Finally the  days  of weeping for him passed, and Joseph  spoke to Pharaoh's   household, saying  --  "If,  now,  I  have  found  favor  in your eyes,  speak,  please,  in  the hearing of Pharaoh, saying--  'My father made me swear,   saying -- "Look!    I am dying.   In  my   burial place which I have  excavated  for myself in   the land of  Canaan  is where you are to bury  me."    And now,  please,  let me go up  and bury my father,  after which  I am  willing  to  return.'"    Accordingly  Pharaoh   

    said  -- "Go  up and  bury   your  father just as  he made you swear."     So  Joseph  went  up  to bury   his father,  and there  went up  with him  all of  Pharaoh's  servants, the older men of  his  household and all  the older men  of the land of Egypt,  and all Joseph's  household and his brothers  and the household of his  father.   Only  their  little children and their flocks and  their herds   they left in  the land of Goshen.   There  also went up with him  both chariots   and  horsemen,  and the camp came to be very numerous.   Then they came to be threshing  floor of  Atad,  which  is in the region of  the  Jordan,  and there  they carried on  a very great and heavy  wailing  and he kept up the mourning rites  in the  threshing  floor  of Atad, and they exclaimed  --  "This  is a heavy  mourning  for the  Egyptians!"   That is why its name Abelmizraim,  which is in the region of  the Jordan.     And  his sons  proceeded to  do  for him  exactly  as he  commanded  them.   So  his  sons  carried  him into  land of  Canaan and buried  him in  the cave of the field of Machpelah,  the field  that Abraham had  purchased  for the possession of a  burial place  from Ephron  the Hittite  in  front of Mamre.     Afterward  Joseph  returned  to   Egypt,  he and  his brothers  and  all those  who went up with  him  to bury his father,   after  he  had buried his  father.    When  the brothers  of  Joseph saw that their father was dead, they  began to say-- "It may be  that Joseph  is harboring animosity against us  and he  will  be sure  to  repay  us  for all the evil that we have  rendered him."'   So  they  expressed  a  command to  Joseph  in  these  words --  "Your father gave the  command  before his death,  saying,  'This  is  what you say to Joseph --  "I beseech   you,  pardon, please,  the revolt of your brothers   and their sin  in  that they  have rendered  evil to you."    And  now  pardon,  please,  the revolt  of the  servants  of   your father's God."   And  Joseph burst into tears when they spoke to him.     Following that  his brothers  also  came and fell down before him and said -- "Here we are  as slaves to you!"   Then  Joseph  said to them--  "Do  not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?     As for you, you had evil in  mind against me.    God had it  in mind for good   for  the purpose of  acting as at  this day to  preserve   many  people alive.     So  now  do not  be afraid.   I  myself  shall  keep  supplying   you and  your  little  children  with food."    Thus he comforted them and spoke  reassuringly  to them.   And  Joseph continued to  dwell in Egypt, he and the house of his father-- and Joseph  lived for a 110 years.    And  Joseph got to see Epraim's  sons of  the  3rd generation, also  the   sons of Machir  the Manasseh's  son.   They  were  born upon Joseph's knees.      At  length  Joseph said to his brothers -- "I am dying, but God will  without fail turn  his attention to you, and he will  certainly bring you up   out of this land to the land  about  which he swore to Abraham, to  Isaac and to Jacob."     Hence Joseph made the  sons of Israel swear, saying --  "God  will  without fail  turn  his attention  to you.    Accordingly you must take  my bones  up  out of here!"     After that Joseph  at the  age of 110 years -- and they had him embalmed,  and he was put in coffin in Egypt.  

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Blue Ink -- Understand & Pray

Exodus 1 - 40

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   Exodus 1      Now these  are the names of  Israel's sons who came into Egypt with Jacob --  each man and his household  came --  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issarchar, Zebulun  and  Benjamin, Dan , Naphtali, Gad and Asher.   And  all the  souls who  issued  out of Jacob's  upper thigh were 70 souls, but Joseph was already in Egypt.   Eventually Joseph  died,  and also all his brothers  and also all that  generation.   And  the sons of Israel became fruitful and began to  swarm -- and they kept on multiplying and growing mightier at a  very extraordinary rate, so that the land  got to be filled with them.   In  time  there  arose over Egypt  a new king who did not  know Joseph.   And he proceeded  to say  to his people -- "Look!   The people of  the sons of  Israel are more numerous and mightier than we are.   Come  on!  Let  us deal shrewdly  with them, for fear they may multiply, and it  must  turn out that,  in case war should befall us,  then  they certainly will  also  be added  to those  who hate  us and fight  against us  and go up out of the country."    So they set over them  chiefs of forced labor  for the purpose of oppressing  them in their burden bearing --  and they went building  cities as storage places for  Pharaoh,  namely.  Pithom  and  Raamses.    But  the more they would oppress them, the more they would multiply  and the more they kept spreading  abroad, so that they felt a sickening dread as a result of the sons of Israel.    Consequently the Egyptians made the sons of Israel slaves under tyranny.   And they kept making their life bitter with hard slavery at clay  mortar and bricks and with every form of slavery  in the field, yes, every form of slavery  of theirs in which  they used  them  as slaves under tyranny.   Later  on the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives,  the name of one whom  was Shiphrah  and  the name  of the other was Puah,  yes,  he went so far as to say -- "When you help the Hebrew women to give birth  and you  do  see them  on the stool for childbirth, if  it is a son, you must also  put it to death -- but if it  is a daughter, it must live."    However,  the midwives  feared the true God, and they did  not do as king of Egypt had spoken to them,  but they would  preserve the male children alive.   In time  the king of Egypt called the midwives  and said to them --  "What is  it you have done this thing,  in that you preserved the male children alive?"   In turn the midwives said to  Pharaoh -- "Because  the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are lively, they have already given birth before the midwives can come in to them."   So God dealt well with the midwives, and  the people kept growing  more numerous and  becoming very mighty.   And  it came  about that because the midwives  had feared  the true God he later  presented  them  with families.     Finally   Pharaoh  commanded all  his  people,  saying -- "Every newborn  son  you are to throw into the river Nile, but every daughter you are to preserve alive."      Meantime,  a certain man of the house of Levi went ahead and took a daughter of Levi.   And the woman  became   

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  pregnant and brought a son to  birth.   When she saw how good -looking  he was,  she kept him  concealed  for  3 lunar  months.  When she was no longer able to  conceal  him,  she then  look for him an ark of papyrus and coated it with bitumen and pitch and put the child  in it and put it among the reeds  by  the bank of river  Nile.    Further,  his sister  stationed herself at a distance  to find out what would be done with him.    After a while Pharaoh's daughter  came down to  bathe in the Nile  River.  And she caught  sight of the ark in the middle of the reeds.   Immediately  she sent her slave girl that she might get it.   When  she opened  it she  got to see the child,  and  here the  boy was  weeping.    At that she felt compassion for him, although  she said --  "This is  one of the  children of the Hebrews."   Then  his  sister said to Pharaoh's daughter -- "Shall  I  go  and specially  call for  you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women  that she may nurse the child for you?"    So  the Pharaoh's daughter  said to her -- "Go!" At once the maiden  went  and called the child's mother.    Pharaoh's daughter then  said to her -- "Take  this child with you and nurse him for me,  and I myself shall give you  your wages."    Accordingly the   woman took the child and nursed him.   And the child grew up.   Then she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter,  so that he became a son to her --  and she  proceeded  to call his name Moses  and  to say -- "It  is because  I have drawn  him out of the water."   Now  it came about  in those days,  as Moses was becoming  strong, that  he went out to  his  brothers that he might look  at the burdens that they were bearing --  and  he caught sight of a certain Egyptian striking a Hebrew of his brothers.    So  he turned this way and that and saw there was nobody in sight.   Then  he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.    However, he went out on the following  day and here  there were 2 Hebrew men  struggling with each other --   So  he said to the one in the wrong -- "Why should you strike your companion?"   At this he  said -- "Who appointed  you as  a prince  and  judge over us?   Are  you intending  to kill me just as you  killed the Egyptian?"   Moses now got afraid and said -- "Surely this thing has become known!"    Subsequently  Pharaoh  got to hear of this thing,  and he attempted  to kill Moses, but  Moses ran away from Pharaoh  that he might dwell in the land of  Midian -- and  he took a seat by a well.   Now the priest of Midian had 7 daughters,  and  as usual they came and  drew water and filled the gutters to water  their father's  flock.    And  as  usual the shepherds came and drove them away.    At this Moses  got up and  helped  the women  out and watered  their flock.   So when they came home to Reuel  their father  he exclaimed -- "How is it  you  have  come  home so quickly today?"    To  this they  said -- "A certain Egyptian  delivered  us out of the hand of the  shepherds and,  besides,  he actually drew water for us   that  he might water the flock."    Then  he said to his daughters -- "But  where is  he?   Why is that  you have left the man  behind?   Call him,  that he may eat bread."   After  that Moses showed willingness  to dwell  with the man, and he gave  Zipporah his daughter  to Moses.   Later  she bore a son and he  called  his name  Gershom, because,  he       

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  said -- "An alien I have come to be in a foreign land."   And about during these days the king of Egypt finally died, but the sons of Israel continued to sigh because of the slavery, and the complaints and cry for help kept going up to the true God because of slavery.    In time God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.   So God looked on the sons of Israel and God took notice.        3    And Moses became a shepherd of the flock of Jethro, the priest of Midian,  whose  son-in-law  he was.    While  he was a driving  the flock to the  west side of  the wilderness, he came at length  to the mountain of the true God, to Horeb.    Then  Jehovah's angel appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a thornbush.     As he kept looking,  why,  here  the thornbush was burning with fire  and yet  the thornbush was not consumed.   At this Moses said -- "Let  me just  turn aside that I may  inspect  this great phenomenon,  as to  why the thornbush is not burnt up."    When Jehovah saw  that he turned aside to inspect, God at once called him out of the midst of the thornbush  and said --  "Moses!  Moses!"  to which he said  -- "Here I am."   Then he said -- "Do not come  near here.  Draw  your sandals from off your feet, because the place where you are standing is a holy ground."  And  he went on to say -- "I  am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."    Then Moses concealed  his face,  because he was afraid to look at the  true God.    And  Jehovah added -- "Unquestionably  I  have seen the affliction  of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard  their outcry as  a result of those who drive them to work -- because I well know the pains they suffer.   And  I am  proceeding  to go down to deliver them out of the hand of  Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a land  good and  spacious, to a land  flowing with milk and honey,  to  the locality of the  Canaanites  and  the Hittites  and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites  and the Jebusites.     And now,  look!   the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me,  and I have seen also the oppression  with  which the Egyptians  are oppressing them.   And  now come and  let me send you to Pharaoh,  and you bring  my people  the sons of Israel out of Egypt."   However,   Moses  said  to the true God -- "Who am I that I  should  go to Pharaoh and that I have  to  bring the sons  of Israel out of Egypt?"    To  this he  said -- "Because I  shall  prove  to be with you, and this is the sign for you that it is I who have sent you -- After you have  brought  the people out of Egypt, you people will  serve the true God on this mountain."     Nevertheless, Moses said to true God, "Suppose I am now come  to the sons of Israel  and  I do say  to them -- 'The God  of  your forefathers  has  sent me  to  you,'   and  they  do say  to me, 'What is his name?'  What shall  I say to them?"    At this God  said to Moses --  "I  shall prove  to be what I shall prove to be."   And  he  added -- "This  is what you  are  to say to the sons of Israel,  'I SHALL PROVE TO BE  has  sent me  to you.'"     Then  God said once  more to Moses -- "This  is what you are to say to  the sons of Israel--"Jehovah the God 

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   of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has sent me to you.  This is my name forever and this I will be remembered for generation after generation. You go and you must gather older men of Israel and say to them,   "God has appeared to me, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob said without fail give attention to you and  to what is being  done to you in Egypt.   And  so  I say I shall  bring  you up  out of affliction  by the Egyptians to the land of Canaanites  and, the Hittites and the Amorites and  the Perizzites  and the Hivites  and the Jebusites, to  a land of flowing  with milk and honey."'    "And  they  will certainly listen to your voice,  and you must come,  you and the older men of Israel,  to the  king of Egypt,  and you men must say to him, 'Jehovah  the God of the Hebrews has  come in touch with us, and now we  want to go, please, a  journey of  3 days  into  the wilderness,  and  we want to  sacrifice to Jehovah our God.'   And  I,  even I,  well  know  that king of Egypt will not  give you  permission  to go  except  by a  strong hand.    And  I shall  have  stretch  out my hand and  strike  Egypt with all  my wonderful acts  that he will  give this  people favor in the eyes of the  Egyptians -- and it will certainly occur  that when  you go, you will not go empty handed.     And  each woman must ask  from her  neighbor  and from  the woman residing as an alien  in her  house articles of silver and articles of gold and mantles,  and you must put them upon your sons and daughters -- and you must strip  the Egyptians."           4   However,  Moses  in  answering  said -- "But suppose they do  not believe me and do not listen to my voice, because they are going to say, 'God did not appear to you.'"     Then  God said  to  him --  "What  is that in  your  hand?"  to which he said -- "A  rod."   Next  he said -- "Throw it on the earth."  So  he threw  it on the earth,  and it became  a serpent -- and Moses began to flee from it.   God now said to  Moses -- "thrust  your hand  out and grab hold of it by the tail."   So he thrust  his hand out and  grabbed  hold of it, and it became  a rod in his palm.    "In  order that,"  to quote him,  "they may  believe that God  the God of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."   Then  God  said to him  once more -- "Stick  your hand,  please, into the upper  fold of your garment.  When  he drew it out, why,  here his hand  was stricken with leprosy like snow!   After that he  said -- "Return your hand into the  upper fold of  your garment."   So  he returned his hand into the  upper fold of his garment,  why, here  it was  restored like the rest of his  flesh!   "And  it must occur  that,"  to quote him,  "If they will not believe you  and will not listen to the voice  of the 1st sign, then they will certainly believe the voice of  the later sign.    Still it must occur that,  if  they will not  believe  even these  2 signs  and will not listen to your voice,  then  you will have to take some water from  the Nile River and  pour it on the dry land -- and the water  that you will take from the Nile River will certainly become, yes, it will indeed become  blood  on the dry land."    

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   Moses  now said to Jehovah -- "Excuse me, God, but  I  am not a  fluent speaker,  neither  since yesterday, nor since before that nor since your speaking to your servant,  for I am slow  of mouth and slow of tongue."   At that  God said to him -- "Who appointed a mouth for man or who appoints  the speechless  or the deaf  or the clear-sighted or   the blind?   Is  is not I,  God?     So now go, and  I  myself  shall prove to be with your mouth  and I will teach you what  you ought  to say."     But  he said -- "Excuse me, God,  but send, please,  by  the  hand of the one  whom  you are going  to  send."    Then God's    anger  grew  hot against  Moses  and he said -- "Is  not  Aaron the Levite your brother?    I  do know that he can really speak.   And,  besides, here he is on his way out to meet you.   When  he does see you, he will certainly rejoice in his heart.   And you must speak  to him  and  put the words in his mouth,   and I  myself  shall  prove to be with  your mouth and his mouth,  and I will teach you men what to do.   And he must speak for  you  to the people -- and it must  occur that he will  serve  as a  mouth to you, and you will serve as God to him.     And this rod  you will  take in   your hand  that you may  perform  the  signs with it."     Accordingly  Moses went  and  returned  to  Jethro  his father-in-law  and said to him -- "I want to go, please, and  return  to my brothers  who are in Egypt  that I may  see whether  they  are still alive."    So Jethro said to Moses -- "Go in peace."  After  that  God said to Moses  in Midian -- "Go return to Egypt,  because all the men who were  hunting for your  soul  are dead."     Then  Moses  took  his wife  and his sons and  made them  ride on an  ass,  and  he proceed  to return to the  land of  Egypt.   Moreover,  Moses  took  the rod  of  the true God  in  his hand.     And  God  went  on to say to Moses -- "After you have  gone and returned  to Egypt  see that you actually perform  all the miracles   that  I  have put  in your hand before  Pharaoh.   As  for me,  I shall let his  heart  become  obstinate --  and  he  will not  send people away.   And  you must say to  Pharaoh,  "This  is  what God has said--"Israel is my son, my 1stborn.    And  I say to you -- Send  my son  away  that he may serve me.   But  should  you  refuse to  send him away, here  I am killing your son, your 1stborn."'"      Now  it came  about on the  road at the lodging place  that God   got to meet him  and kept  looking for a way  to put  him to death.   Finally Zipporah  took a flint and  cut off her son's foreskin  and  caused it  to touch his feet and said -- "It  is because you  are a bridegroom of blood to me."   Consequently  he  let go of him.   At that  time she  said -- "A  bridegroom  of blood,"  because of the circumcision.    Then  God said to Aaron -- "Go  to meet  Moses  into  the wilderness."   With  that he  went and met  him  in  the  mountain of the true God  and kissed him.    And Moses  proceeded to tell  Aaron all the words of   God, who had  sent him,  and  all the signs  that he had   commanded  him to do.     After that Moses and Aaron  went and  gathered all the older men of sons of Israel.   Then Aaron spoke all the words   that God  had spoken  to Moses,  and he  performed  the signs  under the  eyes  of people.   At this people believed.    When  they heard  that God had turned   his  attention to the sons of Israel 

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 and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed down and prostrated themselves.          5    And   afterward  Moses and Aaron  went in  and proceeded  to say  to Pharaoh -- "This  is  what God the God of  Israel  has said -- " Send  my people  away   that  they  may celebrate  a festival  to me in the wilderness."    But  Pharaoh  said -- "Who is God, so that I should  obey his  voice  to send Israel away?"   I do not know  God at all and,  what is more,  I am  not  going to send Israel  away."  However,  they went  on to say -- "The God of the  Hebrews has  come in touch  with  us.   We want to go,  please,  a  journey  of  3  days  into  the  wilderness and sacrifice to God  our Jehovah  -- otherwise  he may strike  at us with  pestilence or with  sword."   At  this  the king  of Egypt   said to  them -- "Why  is it,  Moses and Aaron,  that  you  cause  the  people to  leave  off from  their works?     Go  bearing  your  burdens!    And  Pharaoh   continued -- "Look!  The  people  of the land are now many,  and  you   indeed   make  them  desist from their bearing  of  burdens."    Immediately on that day   Pharaoh  commanded  those  who drove  the people  to work and their  officers, saying  -- "You  must  not gather  straw to give to the people to make  bricks as  formerly.   Let  them  themselves  go  and gather straw for themselves.     Moreover,  the  required  amount of bricks   that they were  making  formerly,  you will   further impose  upon  them.   You must  not make any reduction for them,  because  they are relaxing.    That  is why they  are  relaxing.   That  is why they are crying  out,  saying, "We  want  to  go, we  want  to sacrifice to our God!'   Let the service be heavy upon the men and let  them   work at it,  and let  them  not pay attention to  false  words."    So those who drove  the people  to work and their  officers  went out  and said to the people -- "Here is  what Pharaoh  has  said,  'I am  giving  you  no  more straw.   You  yourselves go,  get straw  for yourselves wherever  you  may find it, because there  is  to  be  no reducing  of your  services  one  bit.'"    Consequently   the  people  scattered  about  over all the land of  Egypt   to gather  stubble for straw.    And  those who  drove them to work kept urging them,  saying --  "Finish  your works, each one  his work, day   for day,   just  as  when the straw was available."    Later  on the officers of the sons of Israel, whom  Pharaoh's  taskmasters  had set over them, were beaten,  these saying -- "Why  is  it  you did not finish your  prescribed  task  in  making  bricks   as  formerly,  both  yesterday and today?"     Consequently   the    officers of  the sons of Israel  went  in  and began  to  cry  out to Pharaoh,  saying -- "Why do you  deal  this  way with your  servants?    There  is no straw given to the servants  and  yet they  are saying to us,  'Make  bricks!'  and  here  your  servants  are beaten,  whereas  your own people  are wrong at fault"   But he  said, "You are relaxing,  you are relaxing!   That  is why you  are saying,  'We  want to go,   we want  to sacrifice to God.  And now go,   serve!   Though  no straw  will  be given to you,  yet  you are to   give  the fixed amount of bricks!"    Then the  officer os  the sons of Israel saw themselves  in an  evil plight  at the saying -- "You  must  not deduct from  your  bricks one  bit of anyone's  daily rate."    After that  they  encountered  Moses  and  Aaron,  who were standing there to meet them  as  they  came  out  from  Pharaoh .   At  once they said  to them -- "May God look upon

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you and judge, since you have made us smell offensive before Pharaoh and before his servants so to put a sword in their hand to kill us."    Then Moses turned to God and said -- "God, why have you caused evil to this people?    Why is it that you have sent me?    For from the time I went in before Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have by no means delivered your people."        6   So God said to Moses -- "Now you will see what I shall do to Pharaoh, because on account of a strong hand he will send them away on account of a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."   And God went on to speak to  Moses and to say to him, "I am God, I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah, I did  not  make myself known to them.   And  I  also  established my covenant with them to give  them the land of Canaan, the land  of  their   alien  residences  in which  they  resided as  aliens.   And I, even I,  have heard  the  groaning  of the sons  of  Israel,  whom  the Egyptians are enslaving, and I remember my covenant.      "Therefore say  to the sons  of  the sons of Israel,  'I am Jehovah,  and I  shall  certainly  bring  you  out from under  the  burdens of the Egyptians and  deliver  you from their slavery, and   I shall  indeed   reclaim  you  with  an  outstretched arm and  with great judgements.    And  I  shall  certainly  take you to me as a people, and   I shall  indeed  prove to be God to you --  and you will   certainly  know   that I am Jehovah your God who is bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt.   And I  shall certainly  bring  you into the land  that I raised my hand in oath to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob --  and I  shall  indeed  give it  to you as something  to possess.  I  am Jehovah.'"     Afterward  Moses  spoke  to this  effect   to the sons of Israel,  but  they did not   listen to  Moses out  of  discouragement  and for hard slavery.     Then  God spoke to Moses, saying --  "Go in, speak to  Pharaoh,  Egypt's king,   that  he  should  send  the sons of   Israel  away out of his land."    However,  Moses  spoke  before God, saying -- "Look!   the  sons of  Israel  have  not listened to me -- and  how will  Pharaoh ever listen to  me,  as  I am  uncircumcised  in   lips?"   But God continued to speak to Moses and Aaron and  issue  the  command by them to  the sons of Israel, to the Phar'aoh, the king of Egypt in order to bring sons of Israel  and to Pharaoh,  Egypt's  king,  in order  to bring  the sons of Israel out from  the land   of Egypt.    These  are  the heads  of the house  of their fathers --  The  sons  of Reuben,  Israel's    1stborn,   were Hanoch  and Pallu, Hezron  and  Carmi.    These  are the families  of Reuben.      And  the sons of Simeon  were Jemuel and  Jamin  and  Ohad  and  Jachin  and Zohar  and Shaul the  son of Canaanite woman.    These  are the families  of Simeon.    And  these  are the names  of the sons of Levi,  according to their family descents --  Gershon  and  Kohath  and Merari.    And  the   years  of Levi's   life were  a  137 years.    The sons of Gershon   were Libni   and Shimei,   according  to their families.    And  the sons of  Kohath  were  Amram  and  Izhar,

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   and  Hebron  and Uzziel.   And   the years of Kohath's   life  were  133 years.       And  the sons of Merari  were Mahli  and Mushi.    These  were the  families of the Levites, according  to their family descents.     Now  Amram  took Jochebed  his father's   sister as his wife.    Later   she bore  him Aaron and   Moses.   And  the  years  of  Amram's  life were a  137 years.   And the sons of Izhar  were  Korah  and  Nepheg  and  Zichri.   And  the sons of Uzziel were Mishael  and Elzaphan  and Sithri.  Now  Aaron took Elisheba, Amminadab's daughter, the sister  of Nahshon,  as his wife.    Later  she bore him Nadab,   and  Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.    And  the sons of Korah   were Assir  and Elkanah  and  Abiasaph.    These  were families of Korahites.    And  Eleazar, Aaron's son,   took   for himself  one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife.    Later she bore him Phinehas.    These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites,  according to their families.   This is  the  Aaron  and Moses  to whom  God said -- "Bring the sons of Israel out from  the land of Egypt according to their armies."   They  were the ones speaking  to Pharaoh, Egypt's king, to bring   the sons of Israel out of  from Egypt.   This is the Moses and Aaron.   It  came about on that day   God spoke to Moses  in the land of Egypt, that God went on  to  speak  to  Moses, saying  "I am  God.  Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt  everything I  am speaking  to  you."    Then  Moses  said  before  God --  "Look!  I am  uncircumcised  in lips,  so  how  will  Pharaoh ever listen to me?"          7   Consequently God said to Moses,  "See,  I have  made  you God to Pharaoh,  and Aaron  your own  brother will become  your prophet.   You --   you will  speak  all that I shall command  you -- and Aaron  your brother  will do  the speaking  to   Pharaoh,  and  he must  send  the sons of Israel away from his land.    As for me,  I shall  let  Pharaoh's  heart  become  obstinate,  and  I shall  certainly  multiply  my signs and  my miracles in  the land of Egypt.   And  Pharaoh  will not  listen  to you men -- and I  shall  have to  lay my hand upon  Egypt and  bring my armies, my people,  the sons of Israel, out from   the  land of Egypt with  great judgements.   And  the Egyptians  will  certainly know that I am   God  when  I  stretch  out my hand  against Egypt,  and  I shall  indeed  bring  the sons of Israel out  from their midst."   And  Moses and Aaron went ahead doing as  God  had  commanded  them.   They  did just  so.   And  Moses  was  80  years  old and Aaron was 83 years old  at the time of speaking to  Pharaoh.    God  now said to Moses and Aaron -- "In case  that Pharaoh  speaks to you, saying, 'Produce a miracle for yourselves',   then you must say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and  throw it  down before  Pharaoh.'  It will become a big snake!"      So  Moses and Aaron went on in to Pharaoh and did exactly  as  God  had  commanded.   Accordingly Aaron  threw  his rod  down before  Pharaoh  and  his  servants and it became a big snake.  However,  Pharaoh  also  called the wise

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men and the sorcerers -- and the magic practicing priests of Egypt themselves also proceeded to do the same thing with their magic arts. So they threw down each one his rod, and they became big snakes -- but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. Still, Pharaoh's heart became obstinate, and he did not listen to them, just as God had spoken. Then God said to Moses -- "Pharaoh's heart is unresponsive.    He has refused to send the people away.    Go to Pharaoh in the morning.     Look!   He is going out of the water! And you must put yourself in position to meet him by the edge of the Nile River, and the rod that had turned into a serpent you are to take in your hand.    And you must say to him, 'God the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying -- "Send my people away that they may serve me in the wilderness," but here you have not obeyed until now.    This is what God has said -- "By this you will know I am God. Here I am striking with the rod that is in my hand upon the water that is in the Nile River, and it will certainly turn into blood.    And the fish that are in the Nile River will actually stink, and the Egyptians will simply have no stomach for drinking water from the Nile River."'"    Subsequently God said to Moses -- "Say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and stretch your hand out over the waters of Egypt, over their  rivers, over their  Nile canals and over their reedy pools and over all their impounded waters, that they may become blood.'   And there will certainly be blood in all the land of Egypt and in the wooden vessels and in the stone vessels."   Immediately Moses and Aaron did so, just as God had commanded, and he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile River under the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile River turn into blood.   And the fish that were in the Nile River died, and the Nile River began to stink -- and the Egyptians were unable to drink water from the Nile River -- and the blood came to be in all the land of Egypt.    Nevertheless, the magic practicing priests of Egypt proceeded to do the same thing with their secret arts -- so that Pharaoh's heart continued to be obstinate, and he did not listen to them, just as God had spoken.   Hence Pharaoh turned and went into his house and he did not set his heart to have any regard for this either.   And  all the Egyptians went digging around about the Nile River for water to drink, because they were unable to drink any water from Nile River.          8  Then God said to Moses -- "Go in to Pharaoh, and you must say to him --'This is what God has said -- "Send my people away that they may serve me.   And if you keep refusing to send them away, here I am plaguing all your territory with frogs.   And the   Nile River will fairly teem with frogs, and  they will certainly come up and enter into your house  and inner bedroom  and upon  your couch  and  into the houses of your servants and on your people  and  into your ovens and into your  kneading troughs.   And on you  and on your people and on all your servants the frogs will come up."'"    Later on God said to Moses -- "Say to Aaron,  'Stretch 

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  your hand with your rod out over the rivers, the Nile canals, and the reedy pools  and make the frogs come up over the the land of Egypt.   At that  Aaron stretched his hand out over the waters of Egypt,   and  the frogs  began  to come up and cover the land of Egypt.    However,  the magic  practicing  priests did the same thing  by their secrets arts and made the frogs come up over the land Egypt.    In time   Pharaoh  called Moses and Aaron  said-- "Entreat  God that  he may remove the frogs from me and my people,  as I  want to  send  the people away that they  may sacrifice to God."   Then Moses said to  Pharaoh -- "You take the glory over  me to say when I shall make entreaty  for you and your servants  and your people  in  order to cut the frogs off from you and your houses.   Only  in the Nile River. will they be left."    To this he said -- "Tomorrow." So he said, "it will be   according to your word,  in  order that  you may know that there's no one like Jehovah our God,   In  that the frogs will certainly turn away from you and your houses  and your servants  and your people.   Only in Nile River   will they  be left."    Accordingly Moses and Aaron  went out  from Pharaoh,  and Moses cried out to God because of the frogs that He had put upon  Pharaoh.    Then God did according to Moses's word, and the frogs began to die off from the houses, the courtyards and the fields.   And they went piling them up, heaps upon heaps, and the land began to stink. When the   Pharaoh  got to see that  relief had taken place, his heart  unresponsive --  and did not listen to them,  just as  God  had spoken.     God  now  said to Moses -- "Say to Aaron,  'Stretch your rod out and strike the dust of  earth,    and it   must become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'"    And  they  proceeded to do this.   So Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth,   and  gnats came  to be  on  man  and beast.   All  the dust  of the earth  became  gnats  in all the land of Egypt.    And  the magic practicing priests tried to do the same  by their secret arts,  in  order to bring forth the gnats,  but they were unable.   And the gnats came to be on  man and  beasts.  Hence the magic practicing priests said to Pharaoh --  "It is the finger of God!"   But  Pharaoh's  heart continued to be  obstinate,  and  he did not  listen to them,   just as  God spoken.    Then  God  said to Moses -- "Get up early in the morning  and take a  position  in front of  Pharaoh.   Look!   He  is coming out to the water!    And you must  say to him, 'This  is what  God  has  said--  "send my people away so  that they  may serve me.   But if you are not sending my people away,   here I am sending upon you and your servants  and your people  and  into your houses the gadfly -- and the  houses of Egypt  will simply be full of gadfly,  and  also  the  ground upon which they are.   And  on that day I  shall  certainly make the land of Goshen   upon  which my people are standing distinct, that no gadfly  may  exist there,  in order that you  may  know I am  God that I am God in the midst of the earth.   And I shall  indeed set a demarcation  between  my  people and your people.    Tomorrow this sign will take place."'"   And  God proceeded to do so,   and heavy swarms of  gadflies began to invade the house 

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  of Pharaoh and the house of his servants and all the land of Egypt. The land came to ruin as a result of the gadflies.  Finally Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said -- "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."   But Moses said, "It is not admissible to do so, because we would sacrifice to God our Lord a thing detestable to the Egyptians before their eyes -- would they not stone us?    We shall go a journey of 3 days into the wilderness and we shall definitely sacrifice to God our Lord just as he said to us."    Pharaoh now said -- "I -- I shall send you away, and you will indeed sacrifice to God your Lord in the wilderness.   Only do not make it quite so far away that you are going.    Make entreaty in my behalf." Then Moses said -- "Here I am going forth from you, and I shall indeed make an entreaty to God, and the gadflies will certainly turn away from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people tomorrow.    Only let not Pharaoh trifle (being trivial, unimportant) again in not sending the people away to sacrifice to God."  After that Moses went out from Pharaoh and make entreaty to Jehovah."  So Jehovah did according to Moses' word, and the gadflies turned away from Pharaoh, his servants and his people.   Not one was left.   However, Pharaoh made his heart unresponsive this time also and he did not send the people away.        9   Consequently   God  said to Moses, "Go   in to  Pharaoh  and you must state  to him,  'This is what  God the Lord of the Hebrews has said--"Send my people away that they may serve me.   But if  you  continue refusing  to  send them away and you  are still keeping  hold of them,  look!  God's hand is  coming upon your livestock that is in the field.  On  the horses, the  asses,  the camels,  the herd and  the flock there will be a very heavy  pestilence.   And  God will  certainly make  a distinction  between the livestock of Israel  and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing that belongs to sons of Israel will die."     Moreover,  God did this thing on the next day,  and all sorts of  livestock of Egypt began to die -- but not one of the livestock of sons of Israel died.   Then   Pharaoh  sent,  and,  look!  not  so much as one  of Israel's livestock had died.    Nevertheless,  Pharaoh's  heart continued to be  unresponsive, and he did not send people away.    After that  God  said to Moses and Aaron -- "Take for yourselves  both hands  full of soot from a  kiln, and Moses must toss it toward  the heavens in  Pharaoh's  sight.  And  it must become a powder upon all the land of Egypt, and it must become boils breaking  out with blisters upon man and  beast  in all the land of Egypt."    So they took the soot of a  kiln and  stood before Pharaoh, and Moses tossed  it toward the heavens,   and it became boils with blisters, breaking out on man and beasts.   And the magic practicing priests were unable to stand before Moses as a result of the boils, because the boils had developed on the magic practicing priests and on all the Egyptians.    But Jehovah let   Pharaoh's heart  become  obstinate, and  he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah stated to Moses. 

  

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   Then  God said to Moses -- "Get up early in the morning and take  a position   in front of  Pharaoh, and you must say to him,   'This is what  God  the Lord of  the Hebrews  has said -- "Send my people away  that  they may serve me.    For at this  time I am sending all my blows  against your heart and  upon  your servants and your people, to  the end that you may know that there  is none like me in all the earth.    For by now I could have thrust my hand out that I might  strike   you and your people with  pestilence  and  that you might be effaced  from  the earth.     But,  in fact,  for this cause I have kept you   in existence,  for the sake of showing you my power and in order to have my name declared in all the earth.     Are  you  still behaving  haughtily  against my people in not sending them away?     Here I am  causing  it to rain down  tomorrow  about this time a very heavy hail, the like of which has never occurred before in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.     And  now send, bring all your livestock and  all that is yours in the field under shelter.   As  for any man   and beasts  that will be found in the field and not gathered into the house, the hail will have to come down upon them,  and they have to die."     Anyone who feared God's word among Pharaoh's servants caused his own servants and his livestock to flee into the houses,  but whoever did not set his heart to have any regard for God's word left his servants and his livestock in the field.   God  now said to Moses -- "Stretch out your hand  toward the heavens, that  hail  may come on all the land of Egypt, upon man and  beasts  and all vegetation of the field  in  the land of Egypt.    So  Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens -- and  God  gave thunders and hail,   and fire would run down to the earth, and   God kept making it rain down hail upon the land of Egypt.      Thus there  came hail, and fire  quivering  in among the hail.      It was very heavy,  so  there had not  occurred  any like  it  in all  the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.     And the hail went  striking  at  all the land of Egypt.   The hail struck everything that was in the field,  from man to  beast,  and all sorts of   vegetation of the field --  and  it  shattered all sorts of trees in the field.    Only in the land of  Goshen where the sons of Israel were, there  occurred  no hail.    Eventually  Pharaoh sent  and  called  Moses and Aaron and said to them -- "I have sinned this time.  God is righteous,  and I and my people are in the wrong.    Entreat God that this may be   enough of the occurring of  God's thunders and hail.   Then I am willing to send you away,  and you will not stay any longer."   So Moses said  to  him -- "As soon as I go out of the city  I  shall  spread my hands  up to  God.   The  thunders   will stop and the hail will  not continue  any longer, in order that  that you may know  that the earth belongs to God.    As  for you and your servants, I know already  that you will not even then show fear because of  Lord God."    As it was, the  flax and  the barley had been struck,  because the barley was in the ear and the flax had flower buds.   But the wheat and the spelt had not been struck, because they were seasonally late.    Moses now went out of the city from Pharaoh  and  spread  his hands up to God,   and the thunders and the hail began to stop and rain did not pour down on the earth.   When   Pharaoh  got to see  

  

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that rain and the hail and the thunders had stopped, he went sinning again and making his heart unresponsive,   he as well as his servants.    And  Pharaoh's  heart continued  obstinate,  and he did not send the sons of Israel away,  just as God   had  stated  by means of  Moses.         10   Then God  said to Moses -- "Go in to  Pharaoh,  because I -- I have let his heart and the hearts of his servants become unresponsive,   in order  that  I may set these signs of mine right before him,  and  in  order  that  you may declare in the ears of your son and your sons' son  how severely I have dealt with Egypt and my signs that I have made among them -- and you will certainly know I am  God."    So  Moses and  Aaron  went  in  to  Pharaoh  and  said to  him -- "This is  what God Lord of the Hebrews has said,  'How long must you  refuse to submit  yourself to me?   Send my people away  that they  may serve me.    For if you continue  refusing to send  my people away,  here I am bringing locusts within your boundaries tomorrow.   And  they will actually cover the visible surface of the earth and  it  will not be  possible  to see the earth --  and they will  simply  eat up the rest of what has escaped, what  has been left to you people by the hail, and they will certainly eat every sprouting tree of yours out of the field.    And  your houses and   the  houses of all of your servants and the  houses of all Egypt will be filled  to an  extent  that your fathers and  your fathers' fathers  have not seen  it  from the day of  their existing  upon the ground until this day.'"   With that he turned and went out from Pharaoh.   After that  Pharaoh's   servants said to him -- "How long will this man prove to be as a  snare to us?   Send the men away that they may serve  God their  Lord.  Do you  not yet know that Egypt has perished?"    So  Moses and  Aaron  were brought back to  Pharaoh,  and  he said to them --  "Go, serve God your Lord.   Who  in  particular  are the ones going?"   Then Moses  said -- "With our young people  and our old people  we shall  go.   With our sons and  our daughters, with our sheep and our cattle we  shall go, for  we have  a  festival to  God."    In  turn he said to them -- "Let  it prove  to be so, that  God is  with you when I shall  send you  and your  little ones away!    See,  on  the contrary, something  evil is your aim.   Not so!   Go,   please,   you who are able  bodied men, and serve  God,  because  that is what you are seeking to  secure."   With  that they were  driven out  from  before Pharaoh.    God  now said to Moses -- "Stretch your  hand  out over the land of Egypt  for the locusts,  that they may  come up  over  the land of Egypt and eat  up  all the vegetation of the land,  everything that  the hail  has let remain."   At  once  Moses  stretched  his rod out over the  land of Egypt,  and  God  caused an east wind  to blow upon the land all that day and  all night.   The morning  came  and  the east wind carried the locusts.     And the locusts  began  to come up  over all the land of Egypt  and to settle   down upon  all  the territory land of Egypt.   They were very   burdensome.   Before  them there had never  turned up in this  way locusts  like them,  and  they there will never turn  up  any  in this way after them.   And they went covering the visible  surface of the entire land, and the land grew dark --  and  they  went  on eating  up all the  vegetation in the land and all the fruit 

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of the trees that the hail had left -- and there was left nothing on the trees or on the vegetation of the field in all the land of Egypt. So Pharaoh hurriedly called Moses and Aaron and said-- "I have sinned against God your God and against you. And now pardon, please, my sin just this once and entreat God your God that he may turn away just this deadly plague from upon me."   So he went out from Pharaoh and made entreaty to God. Then God made a shift to a very stiff west wind, and it carried the locusts away and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was let remain in all the territory of Egypt. However, God let Pharaoh's heart become obstinate, and he did not send the sons of Israel away.  God then said to Moses -- "Stretch your hand out toward the heavens, that darkness may occur over the land of Egypt and the darkness may be felt.   Moses immediately stretched his hand out toward the heavens and a gloomy darkness began to occur in all the land of Egypt for 3 days.   They did not see one another, and none of them got up from his own place 3 days -- but for all the sons of Israel there proved to be light in their dwellings.    After that Pharaoh called Moses and said -- "Go, serve God. Only your sheep and cattle will be detained.  Your little ones also may go with you."        But Moses said -- "You yourself will also give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings, as we must render them to God our Lord.    And our livestock will also go with us.  Not a hoof will be allowed to remain, because it is from them that we shall take some to worship God our Lord, and we ourselves do not know what we shall render in worship to God until our arriving there." At this God let Pharaoh's heart become obstinate, and he did not consent to send them away.  So Pharaoh said to him --"Get out from me!  Watch yourself! Do not try to see my face again, because on the day your seeing my face you will die." To this Moses said -- "That is the way you have spoken. I shall not try to see your face anymore."       11    And God  proceeded  to say to Moses-- "One  plague more I am   going  to bring  upon  Pharaoh  and Egypt.   After  that  he will  send  you  away from here.    At  the time  he sends you  away altogether,  he will literally drive you out from here.   Speak, now,  in  the  ears of  the people,  that  they  should   ask every man of her  companion and every woman  of her companion   articles of silver and  articles of gold."   Accordingly  God  gave the people  favor in the eyes of the Egyptians.    The man Moses was too  was  very great in the eyes of Pharaoh's  servants  and in  the eyes of the people.       And Moses  went on to say -- "This is what God has said, 'About  midnight I am going out  into the midst of  Egypt,  and every  1stborn  of Pharaoh  who  is  sitting on his  throne to the1stborn of the  beasts.   And there will  certainly  occur  a great outcry  in all  the land of Egypt,   the  like  of which has  never yet occurred --  and the like of which  will never  be  brought about again.     But  against any sons of Israel will be no dog  move eagerly its tongue, from man to   beast --  in   

 

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order that you people may know  that God can make a distinction between the Egyptians and the sons of Israel.'   And  all these servants of yours will certainly come down to me  and prostrate themselves to me, saying,   'Go, you and all the people who follow your steps.'    And  after that I shall  go out."   With that he went out from  Pharaoh  in the heat of anger.    Then  God  said to Moses -- "Pharaoh  will  not listen to you men, in  order  for my  miracles to be increased  in  the land of Egypt."   And  Moses and Aaron performed  all these miracles before Pharaoh -- but  God would  let  Pharaoh's  heart become  obstinate,  so  that he  did not send the sons of Israel away from his land."      12     God  now  said to  Moses  and Aaron  in the land  of  Egypt --  "This month will be start of the months for you.    It will be the 1st of the months  of the year for you.   Speak to the entire assembly of Israel, saying, 'On the 10th day of this month they are to take for themselves--each one a sheep for the ancestral house,   a  sheep to a house.    But  if  the household   proves  to be too small for the sheep, then he and  his neighbor  close by  must take it into his house according to number of souls --  you  should compute each  one proportionate  to  his eating regards  as  the sheep.   The  sheep  should  prove  to be  a sound,  a male,  a  year old,  for you.   You may  pick from the young rams or from the goats.     And  it  must  continue under  safeguard  by  you  until the 14th day of this month,  and the whole congregation  of  the assembly of Israel must slaughter it between   the  2 evenings.   And  they must take some of  the  blood and splash it upon the 2 doorposts and the upper part of the doorway belonging  to the houses  in which they will eat it.     "'And  they must eat the flesh on this night.  They   should  eat  it roasted  with  fire  and  with unfermented cakes  along with bitter greens.    Do  not  eat any of it raw or boiled, cooked in water,  but roast  with fire, its head together with its shanks and its interior parts.     And  you must not  leave any of it over till morning,  but  what is left  over  of it  till  morning  you should  burn with fire.   And  in this  way  you should eat it,  with  your  hips girded, sandals on your feet  and your staff  in your hand-- you  must eat it  in  haste.   It  is God's  passover.   And I ,must pass through the land of  Egypt  on  this night  and strike  every  1stborn  in  the land of Egypt,  from  man to beast --  and on  all  the gods  of Egypt  I shall execute judgments.   I am Jehovah.  And the blood must serve as your sign upon the houses where you are -- and  I must see the blood and pass over you, and the plague will not come  on you  as a  ruination  when  I  strike at the land of Egypt.    "'And this day must serve as  a memorial for you,  and you must celebrate it as a festival to   God  throughout your generations.   As  a   statute  to time  indefinte  you should celebrate it.   7 days you are to eat unfermented cakes.  Yes, on  the  1st day you are to take away  sourdough from your houses,  because anyone eating what is leavened,  from  the 1st day down to the 7th,  that  soul  must be cut off from Israel.   And  on the 1st day  there  is  to take place for you a holy convention, and on  the 7th day a holy convention.  No  work is  to be done 

 

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on them--only what every soul needs to eat, that alone  may be done for you.  "'You must keep the festival of unfermented cakes because on this very  day I must bring your armies out from  the land of  Egypt.   And you must keep this day throughout your generations as a  statute to time indefinite.    In  the 1st month of 14th day of the month -- in the evening   you are to  eat unfermented cakes down till 21st day of the month  in the evening.   7 days no sourdough is to be found in your houses,   because anyone tasting what is leavened, whether he is alien or native in the land, that soul must be cut off from assembly of Israel.    Nothing leavened you are to eat.   In all  yout dwellings  you are to eat unfermented cakes.'"    Promptly Moses  called all  the older men of Israel and said to them -- "Draw out  and  take for yourselves small cattle according to your families, and slaughter passover victim.     And you must  take bunch of Hyssop  and dip into the blood  that is in  the basin strike  and strike upon the upper part of the doorway and upon the 2 doorposts and some of the blood  that is  in the basin-- and none of you should go out of the entrance of his house until morning.   Then when  God does pass through to plague the Egyptians and does see the blood upon the upper part of the doorway and upon the 2 doorposts,   God will certainly pass over the entrance, and he will not allow the ruination  to enter into your houses to plague you.     "And you must keep this thing as a regulation for you and your sons  to time indefinite.    And it must occur  that when you come into the land that  God  will  give you, just as he  has  stated, then you must keep this service.   It must occur when your sons say to you, "What does this service mean to you?"   then you must  say,  'It  is sacrifice  of  the passover to  God, who passed over the houses of sons of Israel  in  Egypt when he plagued the Egyptians, but  he  delivered  our houses.'"    Then  the people bowed  low and prostrated themselves.    Subsequently,  the sons of Israel  went and  did just  as  God had  commanded   Moses and Aaron.   They did just so.    And  it  came about that  at midnight   God  struck every  1stborn in the  land of Egypt,  from 1stborn  of  Pharaoh  sitting  on his throne to the   1stborn of the captive, who was in prison hole, and every 1stborn of  beast.    Then  Pharaoh  got up at midnight,  he and  all his servants  and all other Egyptians --  and  because there was not a house where there was not one dead.    At  once  he called Moses and Aaron by night and said -- "Get up,   get out from  the midst of my people, both you and  the other sons of Israel and go,  serve  God,  just   as you have stated.    Take both your flocks and your herds,  just as you  have stated, and go.  Also,  you must bless me besides."    And  the Egyptians  began to urge the people in order to send them  away quickly out of the land, "because,"  they  said, "we  are all as  good as  dead!"     Consequently  the  people carried their flour dough before it was leavened with their kneading troughs wrapped  up  in their   Mantles   upon their shoulder.     And  the sons of Israel  did according to   the word of Moses - in  that they went asking from  the Egyptians   articles  of  silver   

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and  articles  of  gold and mantles.    And God  gave  the  people  favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that these granted  them  what was asked --  and they stripped Egyptians.    And  the  sons of Israel  proceeded to depart  Rameses for Succoth,  to  the number of  600,000   able  bodied  men on foot,   besides little ones.   And a vast  mixed company  also went up with them,  as well as the flocks  and herds,  a  very  numerous  stock of animals.   And  they began to bake flour dough that they brought out from Egypt into round  cakes, unfermented cakes,   because it  had not leavened, for they had  been able to  was not leavened, for they were driven out of Egypt and was not able to linger, and too they   had  not prepared  any  provisions  for  themselves.   And the  dwelling  of the  sons of Israel,  who  had dwelt  in  Egypt,  was 430 years.   And it  came  about at the end of 430 years,  it even came about on this very day that  all the  armies  of God went out of the  land  of  Egypt.    It  is a night of observance with regard to   God for  bringing  them out of the land of  Egypt.   With  regard  to God  this night is one for observance on  the part of  all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.     And God  went  on to say to Moses and Aaron -- "This is the  statute  of the passover -- No foreigner may eat of it.    But  where there is any slave man  purchased  with money, you must circumcise him.   Then   1st  he may share in eating it.    A   settler and a hired  laborer  may not eat of it.   In one house it  is to be eaten.   You must not take any of the flesh  out of the house  to  some place outside.   And  you  must not break a bone in it.    All  the assembly of Israel are to celebrate it.    And in case an  alien resident resides  as  an alien with you and  he will actually celebrate the passover to  God,  let there be a circumcising  of every male of his.   1st then he may come near  to celebrate it  --  and he must become like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised man can eat of it. One law is to exist for the native  of the land.'  But  no  uncircumcised  man may eat of it.   One  law exist for  the native and for the alien  resident  who  is residing  as an  alien  in  your midst. So  all the sons of Israel did just as  God had commanded  Moses and Aaron,  They did just so.     And  it came  about on this very day that   God  brought the sons of Israel together with their armies out of the land of Egypt.       13  And God spoke further  to Moses, saying --"Sanctify  to me every male 1stborn  that  opens  each womb among the sons of Israel, among men and  beasts.   It is mine.   Moses said to people, "remember this day which you went out of Egypt from the house of slaves because of strength of God's hand brought them out of here, so nothing leavened may be eaten.   Today you are going out in the month of Abib and it must occur that when  God will have brought you into the land of Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you must  render  this service this month.    7  days you  are to eat unfermented cakes,  and on the 7th day is a festival 

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to God.   Unfermented cakes are to be eaten for the 7 days -- and nothing leavened is to be seen with you, and no sourdough is to  be seen with you within  all your boundaries.   And you must tell your son on that day, saying, 'It is because of that which God has done to me when I came out of Egypt.'    And It must serve for you as a sign upon your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, in order that God's law may prove to be in your mouth (speech) -- because by a strong hand God brought you out of Egypt.   And you must keep this statute at this appointed time from year to year.   "And it must occur that when God brings you into the land of the Canaanites, just as he has sworn to you and to your forefathers, and when he does give it to you, then you must devote everyone that opens womb to God, and every  1stling of a young beast, which will come to be yours.   The males belong to God.   Every 1stling of ass you are to redeem with a sheep, and if you will not redeem it, then you must break its neck.     And every 1stborn of man among your sons you are to redeem.       "And it must occur that in case your son should inquire of you later on, saying, 'What does this mean?'      Then you must say to him, 'By strength of hand God brought us out of Egypt from the house of slaves.     And it came about  that Pharaoh showed obstinancy toward sending us away, And God proceeded to kill every 1stborn in the land of Egypt, from the 1stborn of man to the 1stborn of beast. That is why I am sacrificing to God all the males that opens the womb, and every 1stborn of my sons I redeem.'     And it must serve as a sign upon your hand and as a frontlet band between your eyes, because by strength of hand God brought us out of Egypt."     And it was about at the time Pharaoh's sending the people away that God did not lead of the Philistines just because it was near, for God said -- "It might be the people will feel regret when they see war and they will certainly return to Egypt.   Hence God made the people go round about by the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. But it was in battle formation that the sons of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt.    And Moses was taking Joseph's bones with him, he had made sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying -- "God will without fail turn his attention to you, and you must take my bones out of here with you."  And  they proceeded to depart from Succoth and to encamp at Etham at the edge of wilderness.    And God was going ahead of them in the daytime in a pillar cloud to lead them by the way, and in the nighttime in a pillar of fire to give them light to go into daytime and nighttime.   The pillar of cloud would not move away from before the people in the daytime nor the pillar of fire in the nighttime.       14   Jehovah now spoke to Moses, saying -- "Speak to the sons of Israel, that  they should  turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth  between Migdol and the sea in view of Baalzephon.    In front of it  you are to encamp by the sea.    Then the  Pharaoh  will certainly say respecting the sons of Israel, 'they are wandering  in confusion in the land.   The wilderness  has closed in upon them.   I should indeed let  Pharaoh's heart become  obstinate,  and he will certainly chase after them     

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and I shall  get glory for myself by means of   Pharaoh  and all his military forces and the Egyptians  will certainly know that I am  God."      Accordingly they did just that.     Later  it was reported to king of Egypt that the people had run away.    Immediately   the heart of   Pharaoh as well as his servants was changed regarding  the people,  so  that they said -- "What is this we have done,  in that  we have sent  Israel  away  from  slaving  for us?"   So  he  proceeded  to make his war chariots  ready,  and he took his people with him.   And he  proceeded to take  600  chosen  chariots and all other chariots of Egypt  and  warriors  upon every one of them.    Thus  God let the heart of  Pharaoh  the king   of Egypt become  obstinate,  and he went chasing after  the sons of Israel,  while  the sons of Israel were going out with uplifted hand. And  the Egyptians  went chasing after them,  and all the chariots horses of  Pharaoh  and his cavalrymen and his military forces were overtaking them while camping  by the sea, by Pihahiroth  in view of Baalzaphon.     When  Pharaoh   got close by the son of Israel began to  raise their eyes  and here the Etyptians  were marching after them, and the sons of Israel got quite afraid and began to cry out to   God.    And they  proceeded to say to Moses -- "It is because there are no burial places at all in Egypt that you have taken us here to die in the wilderness?    What  is this   that you have done to us in leading us out of Egypt? Is this not  the word  we spoke to you in Egypt,  saying,  'let  us alone,  that we may serve Egyptians'?     For  it is better for  us to serve the Egyptians  than for us to die in the wilderness."    Then Moses said to the people -- "Do not be afraid.   Stand firm and see the salvation of  God, which  he will perform for you today.   For the  Egyptians  whom  you do see today you will not see again, no,  never again.   God will himself fight for you, and you yourselves will be silent."    God now said to Moses -- "Why do you keep crying out to me?   Speak to the sons of  Israel  that they should break camp.   As  for  you, lift up your rod  and stretch your hand out over the sea and split it apart,  that sons of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry land.     As  for me, here I am letting the hearts of Egyptians become  obstinate,  that they may go in after them and that I may get glory for myself  by means of  Pharaoh  and all his military forces, his war chariots and his cavalrymen.     And the Egyptians will certainly know  that I am  God when I get glory for myself by means of  Pharaoh,  his war chariots and his cavalrymen.    Then the angel of the true God who was going ahead of the camp of Israel  departed  and went to  their rear, and  the pillar of cloud departed  from their van and stood in the rear of them.     So   it came  in between the  camp of  the Egyptians and the camp of  Israel.  On  the  one  hand it proved to be a cloud together with darkness.  On  the other  hand it kept lighting up the night.    And this group did not come near that group all night long.     Moses  now stretched his hand out over the sea, and   God began  making the sea go back by a strong east wind all night long and converting  the  sea basin  into dry ground, and waters  were being split     

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apart.   At length  the sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on dry land,  while  the waters were a wall to them  on their right hand and on their left.      And the  Egyptians took up pursuit,  and all the horses of Pharaoh,  his chariots and his cavalrymen began going in after them, into midst of the sea. And  it came  about during the morning watch that God began to look out upon the camp of the Egyptians  from within the pillar of fire and cloud, and he went throwing the camp of the Egyptians into confusion.    And  he  kept taking wheels off their chariots  so that they were driving them with difficulty -- and the Egyptians began to say -- "Let us flee from any contact with Israel, because God certainly fights for them against the Egyptians."    Finally God  said to Moses -- "Stretch your hand out over the sea, that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, their war chariots  and their cavalrymen."     Moses at once stretched his hand out over the sea, and the sea began to come back to its  normal condition  at  the approaching  of morning.   All the while the Egyptians were fleeing from encountering it, but God shook the Egyptians off into the midst of the sea.    And  the waters kept coming back.    Finally  they covered the war chariots and the cavalrymen  belonging to all of Pharaoh's military forces  and who had gone into the sea after them.   Not so much as one among them was left  remain.    As  for the sons of Israel,  they walked on dry land in the midst of the seabed, and the waters were for them a wall on their right hand and on their left!    Thus on that day God saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians,  and  Israel got to see the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel also got to see the great hand that God put in action against the Egyptians -- and the people began to fear  God and  to put faith in  God and in Moses his servant.     15  At that time Moses and the sons of Israel  proceeded  to sing this song to God  and to  say the following -- "Let me sing to God,  for HE has become highly  exalted.   The horse  and  its rider he has pitched into the sea. My strength and my might is Jah (God) since he serves for my salvation.   This is my God, and I  shall  laud him -- my father's God, and I shall raise him on high.   God  is a manly  person of war,   God is his name.    Pharaoh's chariots and his military forces he has cast into the  sea, And  the choice of his warriors have been sunk in Red Sea.   The  surging  waters proceeded  to cover  them -- down they went into the depths  like a stone.     Your right hand, O God, is providing  itself powerful  in ability,  Your right hand, O God can  shatter an enemy.  And in   the abundance of your superiority you can throw down those who rise  up against you -- You send out your burning anger,  it eats them up like stubble.         

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And by a  breath from  your nostrils   waters were   heaped up --  They  stood still like a dam of floods.    The rushing waters were congealed in the heart of the sea.    The enemy said, 'I  shall pursue!   I  shall  overtake!   I  shall divide  spoil!    My soul will be filled with them!    I shall draw my sword!   My hand will drive them away!'     You  blew with your breath, the sea covers them --  They sank like lead in majestic waters.   Who among the gods  is like you, Jehovah? Who is like you, proving  yourself mighty in holiness?   The  One to be feared with song of praise, the One doing marvels.   You stretched out your right hand, the earth proceeded to swallow them up.    You in your loving-kindness have  led the people  whom you have recovered -- You in your strength will certainly conduct them  to your  holy  abiding  place.    Peoples must hear,  they will be agitated -- Birth  pangs  must take hold on the  inhabitants  of Philistia.    At that time the sheiks of Edom  will  indeed be disturbed -- As  for the despots of  moab,  trembling  will take  hold on them.   All  the  inhabitants  of  Canaan indeed  be disheartened.   Fright and dread will fall upon them.   Because  of the greatness of your arm  they will be motionless like a stone,   Until your people pass by, O  God,   Until the people  whom  you have produced pass by.    You  will  bring them and plant them  in the mountain of your inheritance,  An  established  place  that  you have made  ready for you to   inhabit,   O God,   A sanctuary,  O God,  that your hands have established.   God will rule as king  to time indefinite, even forever.   When  Pharaoh's   horses with his war chariots  and  his cavalrymen went into the sea.  Then  God brought  back the waters  of the  sea upon them,   While the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea."     And Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, porceeded to take  a tambourine in her hand and all the women began going out with her with tambourine in her hand  -- and  all the women  began  going  out with her with  tambourines and in  dances.    And Miriam kept responding to the men: --  "Sing to God, for he has become highly exalted.   The horse and its rider HE has thrown into the sea."    Later Moses caused Israel to  depart  from the Red Sea  and  they went out to the wilderness of Shur and marched on  for  3 days  in the wilderness, but they did not find water.   In time they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the water from Marah because it   

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was bitter.   That is why he called its name Marah.  And the people began to murmur against Moses, saying -- "What are we to drink?"  Then he cried out to God.    So God directed him to a tree, and he threw it into the water and the water became sweet.    There He established for them a regulation and a case for judgment and there he put them to the test.    And he went on to say -- "If you will strictly listen to the voice of God your Lord and will do what is right in his eyes and indeed give ear to his commandments and keep all his regulations, I shall put none of the maladies upon you that I put upon the Egyptians, because I am God who is healing you."   After that they came to Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees.   So they went camping there by the water.         16   Later they  departed from Elim, and the entire  assembly of  the sons of Israel  finally came  to the  wilderness of Sin, which is  between Elim and Sinai,  on the  15th day of the 2nd month after their coming  out of  land of  Egypt.     And the entire assembly of  the sons of Israel began to murmur  against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.    And  the sons of Israel  kept saying to them -- "If  only if we had died  by God's hand in the  land of Egypt  while we were  eating bread  to satisfaction, because you have brought  us out  into  this wilderness to put this whole  congregation to death by famine."     Then God said to Moses -- "Here  I am raining down bread for you from the heavens -- and the people must go out and pick up  each his amount day for day,  in  order  that  I may  put them to the test  as to whether  they  will  walk in   my law or not.   And  it must  occur  on the 6th day  that they must prepare what they will bring in,  and it must prove double what they keep picking up day by day."    So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel -- "At  evening  you will  certainly know that it  is God who has  brought you out from  the land of  Egypt.  And  in  the morning you  will   indeed see God's glory,   because  he  has  heard  your murmurings against God.    And  Moses  continued  -- "It  will be when God gives you evening meat to  eat and in the morning bread to satisfaction, because God heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against HIM and what are we?   Your murmurings are not against us, but against God."    And  Moses  went on to say to  Aaron -- "Say to   the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, 'Come near before  God, because HE has  heard your murmurings.'"   Then  it occurred  that  as  soon  as  Aaron had  spoken  to the entire  assembly of  the sons of Israel, they turned and faced toward the wilderness, and,  look!     Lord's glory appeared in the cloud.    And God spoke further to Moses, saying -- "I have heard the murmurings  of the sons of Israel.   Speak  to them, saying,  'Between the 2 evenings you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be  satisfied  with bread -- and you will certainly know that  I am God your  Lord.'"    Accordingly  it occurred  that in the evening the quails began to come up and cover the

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camp, and in the morning there developed a layer of dew round  about  the camp.  In time the  layer of dew evaporated and  here upon the surface of the wilderness  there was  a fine flaky thing, fine like  hoarfrost  frost upon the earth.      When  the sons of  Israel got to see it, they  began  to  say to one another -- "What is it?"    For they did  not know what it was.    So Moses said to them -- "It  is the bread that God  has given you for food.   This  is the word  that God  has commanded -- 'Pick up some of it, each one  in proportion  to his eating.  You are to take  an  omer (2.2 Liter = 1/10th of Ephah = 4.7 pints = 9 cups)  for each individual  according to the number of  souls that each of you has  in  his tent.'"    And the sons of Israel began to do so --  and they went picking up, some gathering  much and some  gathering  little.    When  they would measure it  by the omer (2.2 liter = approx. 9 cups),  he that  had gathered  much had no surplus  and  he that gathered  little had no shortage.   They  picked  it up  each one in proportion to his eating.   Then Moses said to them, "Let nobody leave any of it until morning."    But they did  not listen to Moses.   When  some men would leave some of it until morning, it would breed worms and stink, so Moses became  indignant  at them.    And they would pick it up  morning by morning,  each one in proportion to his eating.   When the sun got hot it melted.    And  it came about  on the 6th day  that  they picked up twice as much bread,  2 omer (4.4 liters = approx. 18 cups) of  measures for 1 person.   So all the chieftains of  the assembly came and reported to Moses.   At that he said to them -- "It is  what God  has spoken.  Tomorrow  there will be a sabbath  observance  of  a holy sabbath to  God.   What  you can  bake, bake, and what you can boil, boil,   and all the surplus  that there is  save it up  for you  as something  to be kept until morning."    Accordingly they saved it  up  until morning  just  as Moses had commanded --  and it did  not  stink nor did maggots develop in it.   Then  Moses said -- "Eat it today,  because today is a sabbath to God.   Today  you will not find it  in  the field.    6  days you will pick it up, but on the 7th day is a sabbath.    On it none will form.    However, it came  about  on  the  7th day that  some of the people did  go out to pick it up, but they found none.     Consequently  God  said to Moses -- "How long  must   you people  refuse  to keep  my commandments and my laws?    Mark the fact that  God  has  given  you  the  sabbath.   That  is why he  is giving  you on the 6th day the bread for 2 days.     Keep  sitting each one in his own place.   Let nobody go out from his locality  on the 7th day."     And the people proceeded to observe  the sabbath on the 7th day.    And  the house of Israel  began to call its name "manna."    And it was white like the coriander seed and taste  was like  that of  flat cakes with honey.    Then Moses said -- "This is the word that God  has commanded, 'Fill an omer (about 4.7 pints) measure of it as something to be kept throughout your generations,  in order  that they may see the bread  that  I made you eat in the wilderness when I was bringing you out of  the land of Egypt.'"   So Moses said to Aaron -- "Take a jar  and put  in it an omerful of    manna and  deposit  it before God as something to be kept throughout your generations."     Just  as God had  commanded  Moses,    Aaron proceeded to  deposit 

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it   before the Testimony  as something to be kept.    And  the sons of Israel ate the manna  40 years, until  their coming to a land inhabited.    The manna was what they  ate until their  coming  to the frontier  of the land of  Canaan.   Now an omer is a 10th (1/10)  of an ephah measure  (22 liters or 46.5 pints).       17  And  the entire  assembly  of  the sons of Israel  proceeded to  depart from  the wilderness of Sin by stages,  which  they  took according  to the order  of God,  and went camping at Rephidim.   But  there was  no water for  the people to drink.   And  the  people fell  quarreling  with Moses  and saying --  "Give us water  that we  may  drink."     But Moses said to them -- "Why are we quarreling  with me?    Why do you keep  putting  God  to the test?"   And  the  people went  on  thirsting there for  water, and  people kept murmuring against Moses  and saying -- "Why  is it  that  you have brought  us  up out of Egypt  to  put us  and  our sons and livestock  to death by thirst?"   Finally Moses cried out to  God,  saying -- "What shall   I do  with this  people?   A  little longer  and they will stone me!"    Then  God  said  to Moses  -- "Pass in front of the people and  take with  you some of the older men of Israel and your  rod with  which you struck the Nile River.   Take  it in your hand and you must walk on.       

And Look!   I am standing  before you there on the rock in Horeb.    And  you must strike the rock,  and water must come out of it,  and the people must drink it." Subsequently  Moses did  so under the eyes of older men of Israel.  So  he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling  of the  sons of Israel and  because of  their  putting God to the test, saying -- "Is God  in our midst  or not?"   And the  Amalekites proceeded to  come  and fight against Israel in Raphidim.    At this Moses said to Joshua -- "Choose men for us and  go out, fight against Amalekites.    Tomorrow  I am stationing   myself  upon  the top of the hill,  with the rod of the  true God in my hand."    Then Joshua did just as Moses  had said to him,  in  order  to  fight against Amalekites -- and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.   And  It occurred  that  as  soon  as Moses  would  lift his hand up,   the Israelites  proved  superior, but as soon as he let down his hand, the Amalekites proved to be superior.    When  the hands  of Moses  were heavy,  then  they took  a stone and put  it  under him,  and  he sat upon it -- and   Aaron and  Hur supported his hands, one the this side  and the other on that side,  so  that his hands held steady  until the sun set.    Hence  Joshua  vanquished (conquered, defeated) Amalek and his people with the edge of his sword.    God now said to Moses -- "Write this as a memorial  in the book  and  propound  it in  Joshua's ears, 'I  shall  completely wipe out  the remembrance of Amalek from  under the heavens.'"   And  Moses  proceeded to  build  an altar and to  call its name Johovahnissi,  saying -- "Because a hand is against a  throne of Jah (Lord) God  will have a war with Amalek  from generation to generation."       18   Now Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, got the hear about all that  God had done  for Moses  and for Israel  his people,  how God had  brought Israel out  of Egypt.  

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So Jethro, Moses' father in law took up Zipporah,  Moses's wife, after the sending of her away,  and her  2 sons,  the name of one of whom was  Gershom,  "because,"   he said,  "an alien  resident  I  have come to  be in  foreign land" --  and the  name of the other was Eliezer,  "because, " to quote him,  "the  God of my father is my helper  in that he  delivered  me from  Pharaoh's sword."    So Jethro,  Moses'  father in law,  and his sons  and his wife came to Moses into the wilderness where he was camping at the mountain of the true God.     Then he sent word to Moses -- "I, your father in law,  Jethro,  and come to you,  and  also  your wife, and  her 2 sons with her."   At  once Moses went out to meet his father in law and he proceeded to prostrate himself and  to kiss  him -- and they  each  one  began  asking how the other was getting along.   After that they went into the tent.     And Moses  went  to relating  to his father in law all that  God had done to  Pharaoh  and Egypt on account of Israel,  and all the hardship  that had befallen them on the way, and yet God was  delivering   them.     Then Jethro  felt  glad over all the good that God had done for Israel in that  he had  delivered them from the hand of Egypt.    Consequently  Jethro said -- "Blessed  be God, who has delivered  you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh,    and who has  delivered  the people from under the hand of Egypt.    Now I know  God is greater than all the other gods by reason of this affair which they acted  presumptuously against them."    Then  Jethro, Moses' father in law,  took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God --  and Aaron and all the older men of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father in law,  before the true God.    And it came about on the next day that  Moses sat down as usual to serve as judge for the people, and the people kept standing before Moses from the morning till the evening.  And   Moses father in law  got to see  all that he was doing for  the people.  So    he said -- "What  kind of business is this you are doing for the people?      Why do you alone continue sitting and all the people continue taking their stand before you  from morning till evening?"    Then Moses said  to  his father in law -- "Because the people keep coming to me to  inquire of  God.     In  the event that they have a case arise, it  must come to me, and I must judge between the one party and the other, and I must make known the decisions of the true God and his laws."     At   this  Moses's  father in law said to him -- "It is not good the way you are doing. You will surely wear out, both you and this people who are with you, because this business is too big a load for you.  You are unable to do it by yourself. Now listen  to my voice,   I  shall advice, you,  and God will prove to be with you.   You  yourself  serve  as representative  for the people before the true God,   and you  yourself  must bring the cases to the true God.   And you must warn them of  what the regulations  and the laws are, and you must make them known  to them the way  in which they should  walk and  the work they should do.     But you  yourself should select out of all the people capable men, fearing   God,  trustworthy men,  hating unjust profit, and  you must set these over them as  chiefs over 1000s, chiefs  100s,  chiefs  over  50s  and    

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chiefs over 10s.     And  they must judge the  people  on  every proper occasion and  it must  occur that every big case they will bring to you, but every small case they  themselves will  handle as judges.   So make it lighter for yourself and they must carry the load  with you.    If  you do this very thing, and  God has commanded you, you will then certainly will   be able to  stand it and,   besides, this people will all come to their own place in peace."      Immediately Moses listened to  the voice of  his father in law and did all he had said.    And Moses   proceeded  to choose capable men out of  all  Israel and to give them  positions  as heads over   the people,  as chiefs of  1000s,  chiefs of 100s,  chiefs of  50s, and chiefs of  10s.   And they judged  the people  on  every proper occasion.  A hard case  they would bring to Moses, but every small case  they themselves would handle as judges.    After  that Moses saw  his father in law off,  and  he went his way to his land.        19   In  the 3rd month after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt,  on the same day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai.   And  they  proceeded to pull away from  Rephidim and come  into  the wilderness of Sinai and   to  encamp  in the wilderness,  and Israel went camping there in front of the mountain.   And  Moses went up  to the true God and Lord  began to call  to him out  of the mountain, saying-- "This is what you  are to say to the house of Jacob and  to tell the sons of Israel, 'You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, that I might  carry you on wings of eagles and bring you to myself.    And now if you  will  strictly obey my voice and I will indeed  keep my covenant, then  you will certainly become my special property  out of all other peoples, because the whole earth belongs to me.   And you yourselves will become  to me a kingdom of priests and a  holy nation.'    These  are the words that  you say to the sons of Israel."    So  Moses came and called the older men of  the people and set before  them  all  these words that God had commanded him.    After that all the people answered unanimously and said, "All that God  has spoken we are willing  to do."   Immediately  Moses took back the words of the people to  God.     At this God said to Moses -- "Look!  I am coming to you  in a dark cloud,   in order that the people may hear when I  speak with  you, and  that in you also they may put faith to time indefinite."    Then  Moses  reported the  words of people to  God.   And  God went on to say to Moses -- "Go to the people,  and you must  sanctify  them today and tomorrow, and they must wash their mantles.    And they must prove ready for the 3rd day, because on the 3rd day God  will come down before the eyes of all  the people upon the Mount Sinai.   And you  must set bounds  for the people  round about, saying,  'Guard yourselves  against  going up the mountain,   and do not touch the edge of it.   Anybody  touching the mountain will certainly be put to death.   No hand is to touch him, because  he will positively  be stoned or will  positively  be shot through.   Whether  beast  or man, he will not live.    At the blowing  of the  ram's horn  they themselves may come up to the mountain."    Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and he set about  sanctifying           

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 the people, and they engaged in washing their mantles.     Accordingly he said to the people -- "Get ready during the 3 days.    Do not you men come near a woman."    On the 3rd day when it became morning it came about that thunders and lightnings began occurring, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain and a very loud sound of a horn, so that all the people who were in the camp  began to tremble.      Moses   now   brought people out of the camp to meet the true God, and they went taking their stand at  the base of the mountain.     And Mount Sinai    smoked all over, due to   the fact that God   came down upon it in fire -- and the smoke kept ascending like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain was trembling very much.    When the   sound of the horn because continually louder and louder, Moses began to speak, and   the true God began   to answer him with a voice.      So   God came down upon   Mount Sinai   to the top to the mountain.    Then God called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. God now said to Moses -- "Go down, warn the people, that they do not try to break   through   to God  to take a look  and many of them have to fall.    And let priests also who regularly come near to God sanctify themselves, that God may not break out upon them."      At this Moses said to God -- " The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you yourself already warned us, saying, 'Set bounds for the mountain and make it sacred.'"     However, God said to him -- "Go, descend, and you must come up, you and Aaron with you -- but let the priests and the people break through to come up to God, that he may not break out upon them."    Accordingly Moses descended to the people and told them.        20   And  God proceeded  to  speak all  these words,  saying -- "I am God your Lord, who  have brought you out of  the land  of  Egypt, out the house of slaves.   You must not have any other gods against my face.     "You must not make  for yourself  a carved  image or a  form like anything that is  in the heavens above or  that  is on the earth underneath or  is  in the waters under the earth.     You must not bow down to them nor  be induced  to  serve them, because I am  God your  Lord am a God  exacting exclusive devotion,  bringing  punishing for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the 3rd generation and upon the 4th generation,   in the  case those  who hate me  -- but   exercising  loving kindness toward the 1000th generation  in  the case of those who love me and keep my commandments.     "You must not  take up the name of God your Lord  in  a  worthless way for God  will not leave the one unpunished who takes up  his name in worthless way.    "Remember the sabbath day  to hold it sacred, you   are  to render service and you must  do all the work 6 days.   But  the 7th day  is a sabbath to   God your Lord.     You must not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your slave man  nor your slave  girl  nor  your  domestic animal nor  your alien  resident   who is inside your  gates.    For  in  6 days God made the heavens      

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 and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them,  and HE proceeded to rest on the 7th day.    That  is why God blessed the sabbath day and proceeded to make it sacred.     "Honor  your  father and  your  mother  in order  that  your  days  may  prove long upon the ground  that  God your Lord is giving you.   "You must not murder.    "You must not commit adultery.   "You must not steal.    "You must not testify falsely against your fellowman.    "You must not desire your fellowman's house.   You  must not  desire your fellowman's  wife,   nor  his slave man nor  his slave girl  nor his bull   nor his ass  nor  anything that belongs to your fellowman."    Now  all the people were seeing the thunders and lightning flashes and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking.    When  the people got to see it, then  they quivered and  stood at a distance.   and they  began  to say to Moses -- "You speak with us, and let us listen -- but let  not God speak with us  for fear we may die."   So Moses  said to the  people --  "Do  not  be afraid because,  for the sake of putting you to the test  the  true God has come,   and in  order that the fear of him may continue before your faces   that you may not sin."    And the people kept standing at a distance, but Moses went near to the dark cloud mass where  the true God was.   And God  went on to say to Moses -- "This is what you   are  to  say to the sons of Israel,  ''You  yourselves 'have  seen that it was  from the heavens  I spoke with you.   You must not make along with me gods of silver,  and you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.     An altar of ground you are to make for me, and you must make sacrifices upon it your burnt offerings   and communion sacrifices, your flock and  your  herd.     In  Every place where I  shall  cause my name to be remembered, I  shall  come to you and  shall  certainly  bless you.     And if you should make an altar of stones for me, you must not  build  them  as hewn stones.  In the  event that you  do wield your  chisel  upon   it,  then you will profane  it.     And you must not go up by steps to my altar, that your private parts may not be exposed  upon it.       21    "And  these are the  judicial  decisions  that you are to set before them -- "In case  you should buy a Hebrew slave,  he  will be  a  slave  6 years, but in the 7th  he  will go out  as  one set  free without charge.   If  he  should come in  by himself, by himself he will go out.    But if he  is  the owner of a wife, then his wife must go out with him.   But  if his master should  give him a wife and  she  does bear  him  sons or daughters, the wife and her children will become her master's and he will go out by himself.    But if the slave should  insistently  say, 'I really love  my master, his wife and his sons and do not want to go out as one set free.'  then his master must bring  him near to  the true God and must bring  him  up against the door or  the doorpost --  and his master must pierce his ear with an awl,  and  he  must be his slave to him  indefinite.   "And  in  case  a  man should  sell his daughter as a slave girl,  she will not go out in the way that the slave men go out.     If  she  is a displeasing  in  the  eyes  

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 of her master  so  that he does  not designate  her as  a  concubine  but causes  her to be redeemed, he will not be entitled  to sell  her to foreign  people  in his treachersouly  dealing with her.    And it should be to his son  that he designates  her,  he is to do to her according  to the due  right of daughters.   If he should take another wife for himself, her  sustenance,  her clothing  and  her marriage due are  not to be  diminished.   If  he will not  render these  3 things to her, then she must go out for nothing, without paying money.    "One who  strikes  a man so that  he  actually dies is  to be put to death without fail.    But when one does not lie in wait and the true God lets it happen at his hand, then I must fix  for  you a place where he can flee.   And  in  case  a man  becomes  heated against  his fellow   to the point of killing him with craftiness, you  are to take him even from  being at my altar to die.   And one who  strikes his father and his mother   is  to be put to death without fail.   "And  one who kidnaps a man and  who actually  sells him or found in   whose  hand  he has been  found is to be  is put to death without fail.    "And  one  who  calls  down  evil  upon  his father and his mother  is to be put to death  without fail.    "And in case of men  should get into a   quarrel  and  one does strike his fellow with a stone  or a  hoe and he does  not die but  must keep to his bed -- if he gets up and does walk about out of doors   upon  some support of  his,  then the one who struck him must be free from punishment  --  he will  make  compensation only for the time lost from  that  one's    work  until he gets him completely healed.    "And  in case  a man strikes his slave man or  his  girl with a stick and he  that  one  actually dies under his  hand, that one is to be avenged  without fail.   However,   if  he lingers  for  a  day or   2 days, he is not to be  avenged,  because he  is his money.    "And  in case of men  should  struggle  with each other and  they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children   do  come out  but  no fatal accident  occurs,  he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman  lay  upon  him  --  and  he  must  give it  through justices. But if a fatal accident  should  occur, then you must give soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, branding for branding, wound for wound, blow for blow.   "And  in case of a  man should strike the eye of his slave man or  the eye of  his slave girl  and he really  ruins it,  he is  to  send  him  away  as one set  free  in compensation for his eye.     And if it  should  the  tooth of his  slave man or the tooth of his slave girl  that he knocks out, he  is to  send  him  away  as one  set free in compensation for the tooth.   "And  in case  a  bull  should  gore a man or woman and  that  one  actually dies, the bull is to be stoned without fail,   but its flesh  is not to be eaten -- and the owner  of the bull  is free of punishment.   But if a bull  was  formerly  in the  habit of goring  and warning was served on its owner but he would not keep  it under guard,  and it did  put  a  man or woman  to death,  the  bull is to be stoned and  also its  owner  is to be put to death.     If  a ransom  should  be imposed upon him,  then he must give the redemption price  for his  soul according to all that  may be  
    

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imposed upon him.   Whether  it gored a son or gored a daughter, it is to be done to him according to this judicial decision. If it was a slave man or a slave girl that the bull gored, he will give the price of 30 shekels to that one's master, and the bull will be stoned. "And in case a man should opens a pit or should excavate a pit, and should not cover it, and a bull or an ass does fall into it, the owner of the pit is to make compensation. The price he is to return to its owner, and the dead animal will become his own. And in case a man's bull should hurt another's bull and it does die, then they must sell the live bull and divide the price paid for it -- and also the dead one they should divide.    Or if it was known that a bull was in the habit of goring formerly but its owner would not keep it under guard, he should without fail make compensation with bull for bull, and the dead one will become his own.      22   "In case a man should steal a bull or a sheep  and he does  slaughter  it or  sell it,  he is to compensate  with   5 of  the herd for the  bull and 4 of  the flock for the sheep ("If  a thief   should be found in the act of  breaking in   and  he does  get struck and die, there  is  no guilt from bloodshed for him, but if the sun shined upon him then there is  bloodguilt for  him.   If  the  sun has shone  forth upon  him,  there is no  bloodguilt  for him.)   "He  is  to make  compensation without fail.   If he  has nothing, then  he must be sold for the things he stole.   If  there should  be  unmistakably  found in his hand  what was stolen,  from  bull to  ass  and to sheep,  alive,  he is  to make double compensation.    "If  a man causes a field or a vineyard  to  be  grazed over and  he does send out   his  beasts  of  burden and cause a  consuming in another field, he is to make compensation with best of his own field or  with the best of  his own vineyard.     "In  case  a fire should  spread  out and  it does  catches thorns, and sheaves  or standing grain or  a field gets  consumed,  the one who started the  fire  is  to  make compensation without fail for what was burned.      "In  case a  man  should  give  his fellow money or articles to keep, but it gets  stolen from  the man's  house, if  the thief  should be  found, he is to make double compensation.   If  the  thief  should  not be  found,   then the owner of the house must be brought near to  the  true God  to  see whether  he did not put his hand  upon the goods of his fellow.   As regards any case of  transgression,  concerning a bull,  an ass,  a sheep,  a  garment, anything lost  of which he may say, "This is  it!"    the case of them both  is  to come to the true God.     The one whom God will   pronounce  wicked  is to make double compensation to his fellow.     "In    case  a man  should  give  his fellow an ass or  bull or sheep or any domestic animal  to keep,  and  it   does not die or get maimed  or gets led  off while nobody   is looking,  an  oath by  God  is to take place between them both that he did not  put his hand on the goods of his fellow --  and their owner must accept it, and their  owner  is  not to make compensation.   But if they  should for a fact be stolen from him, he is to make compensation  to their owner.   If it  should  for a fact  be torn by a   wild beast,  he is to  bring  it as evidence for something torn by a  wild  beast he is not to compensate.       "But in  case  anybody  should ask for something  of  his fellow,   and  it  does  get  maimed  

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or die while its owner is not with it, he is to make compensation without fail.   If its owner is with it, he is not to make compensation.      If it is hired, it must come in its hire.     "Now in case a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he actually lies down with her, he is to obtain her without fail as his wife for the purchase price.    If  her father flatly refuses to give her to him, he is to pay over the money at the rate of purchase money for virgins.      "You must not preserve a sorceress alive. "Anyone lying down with a beast is positively put to death. "One who sacrifices to any gods but God alone is to be devoted to destruction. "And you must not maltreat an alien resident or oppress him, for you people became alien residents in the land of Egypt. "You people must not afflict any widow or fatherless boy.    If you should afflict him at all, then if he cries out to me at all, I shall unfailingly hear his outcry -- and my anger will indeed blaze, and I shall certainly kill you with the sword, and your wives must become widows and your sons fatherless boys. "If you should lend money to my people, to the afflicted alongside you, you must not become like a usurer to him. You must not lay interest upon him.    "If you should at all seize the garment of your fellow as a pledge, you are to return it to him at the setting of the sun.   For it is his only covering, it is his mantle for his skin.    In what will he lie down?    And it must occur that he will cry out to me, and I shall certainly hear, because I am gracious.  "You must not call evil upon God nor curse a chieftain among your people. "Your full produce and the overflow of your press you must not give hesitantly.     The 1stborn of your sons you are to give to me (God).   The way you are to do with your bull and your sheep is this-- 7 days it will continue with its mother.    On the 8th day, you are to give it to me. "And you should prove yourselves holy men to me -- and you must not eat flesh in the field that is something torn by a wild  beast.     You should throw it to the dogs.        23   "You must not take up an untrue report.    Do not cooperate with  a wicked one by becoming  a witness who schemes violence.    You must not follow  after the  crowd  for evil ends -- and you must not testify  over a   crowd to pervert justice.    For the poor one, you must not show preference in controversy  so as to turn  aside with the crowd  in order  to pervert  justice.   As  for the  lowly  one,  you must not  show preference in a controversy  of his.    "Should  you come upon  your enemy's bull or his  ass going  astray,  you  are to  return  it without fail to him.   Should you see the ass  of  someone who hates you lying down under its load,  then you must refrain from leaving him.    With  him  you are without fail  to get it loose.    "You   are not pervert the judicial  decision of your poor man in his controversy.    "You are to keep far away from false word.   And do not kill the innocent and the righteous,  for I   shall not declare wicked one righteous.  

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"You  are not to accept a  bribe,   for the bribe blinds the clear-sighted men and distort the words of righteous men.   "And you must not oppress an alien resident,  as  yourselves have known the soul of the alien resident,  because  you  became alien residents in the land of Egypt.    "And for  6 years you are to sow your land with seed  and  you must gather its produce.   But  the 7th year  you  are to leave it uncultivated and you must  let it lie fallow (unplowed),  and the poor  one of your people must eat  of it -- and what's left over by them the  wild  beasts of the field are to eat.   That  is the way you are to do with your  vineyards and olive grove.    "6 days you are to do your work -- but on the 7th day you are to  desist (stop),   in  order that your bull and  your ass  may rest, and the son of your slave girl and the alien resident  may  refresh themselves.   "And  you  are to be on  your guard respecting all that I have said to you --  And you must not  mention name of other gods.  It should not be heard from your  mouth.   "3 times  in  the year you are to celebrate a festival to me.    You will keep the festival of unfermented cakes.   You will eat unfermented cakes  7 days,  just as I have  commanded  you,  at the appointed time in the month of Abib (1st month--Abib) because in it  you came out of Egypt.   And they must not appear before me empty handed.    Also, the festival of harvest of  1st ripe fruits of your   labors, of what you sow in the field -- and the festival of ingathering at the  outgoing (end) of the year, when you gather in your  labors from the field.      On   3 occasions in the year  every male of yours will appear before the true Lord, Jehovah.     "You must not sacrifice along with what is leavened  the blood of my sacrifice.    And  the fat of my festival should not stay overnight until morning.     "The best of the 1st ripe fruits of your  ground  you are to  bring to the house of Jehovah your God.   "You must not boil kid (young goat) in mother's milk.     "Here I am sending  an angel ahead of you to keep you on the road  and  to bring you into the place that  I have prepared.   Watch yourself because of him  and obey  his voice.   Do  not behave rebelliously  against him,  for he will not pardon your transgression (wrong doing, sin) --  because my name is within him.    However,  if you strictly obey his voice and   really do  all that  I shall speak,  then  I shall certainly be hostile  to  your enemies and harass those who harass you.      For my angel will go ahead of you and   will indeed  bring you to Amorites  and the Hittites  and the Perizzites  and  the Canaanites  and  the Hivites and Jebusites -- and I shall  certainly efface  (erase) them.   You must not bow down to their gods or be  induced (persuaded) to serve them,   and you must not make anything like their works, but you will without fail throw them down and  you will without fail  break their sacred pillars.   And  you must serve God your  Lord,  and he will certainly bless your bread and water -- and  I shall indeed  turn malady (sickness)  away from your  midst.    Neither a woman suffering  an abortion nor a barren woman will  exist in your land.   I shall  make the  number of  your days  full.  "And I shall  send the fright  of me ahead of you, and I  shall certainly throw into  confusion    

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all the people among  whom  you  come,  and I shall  indeed  give the back of the neck of all your enemies to you.   And   I will send the feeling of dejection   ahead of you, and  it will simply  drive the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites out from before  you.   I  shall  not drive them out  from before you  in   one year,  that the  land  may  not become a  desolate  waste and the  wild beasts  of the field  really multiply against you.  Little by little I  shall  drive them out from before you, until you become fruitful and really take the possession  of the land.   "And  I will fix the boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines and from  the wilderness to the River, because I  shall give into your hand the  inhabitants  of the land,  and you will certainly drive them out from before yourself.    You are not to conclude a covenant  with them or their gods.   They should not  dwell in your land, that they may not cause you to sin against me.    In case you should serve their gods, it would become a snare  to you."      24   "And to Moses he said-- "Go up to God, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and  70 of the older men of Israel, and you must bow down from a distance.    And Moses by himself must approach God -- but they should not approach,  and the people should not go up with him."    Then Moses  came and  related to the people all the words of God, and all the judicial decisions, and all the people answered  with one voice and said -- "All the words that   God  has spoken we are willing to do."    Accordingly Moses wrote down all the words of   God.  Then  he got up  early in the morning and built at the foot of the mountain an altar and 12 pillars corresponding with the 12 tribes of Israel.      After  that he  sent young men of the sons  of  Israel and they offered up  burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as sacrifices, as communion sacrifices to   God.    Then Moses took  half the blood  and put it in bowls, and half the blood he sprinkled upon the altar.     Finally  he took the book of the covenant and read  it in the ears of the people.   Then they said -- "All that God has spoken we are willing to do and be obedient."    So  Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people and said -- 'Here is the blood of the covenant   with  you  as  respects  all these words."     And  Moses  and  Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the older men of Israel proceeded to  go  up,  and they got to see the God of Israel.    And under his feet  there were what seemed like  work of sapphire flagstones  and  like the very heavens for purity.    And  he didn't put  out his hand  against the distinguished  men of the sons of Israel, but they got a vision of the true God and ate and drank.     God  now said to Moses -- "Come up to me  in the mountain and stay there,  as  I want to give you the stone tablets and the law and the commandment that I must write in order to teach them."   So Moses and Joshua  his minister got up   and Moses  went up into the mountain of the true God.    But  to the older men he had said -- "You wait for us in this place until we return to you.     And,  look!   Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a case at law, let him approach them."     Thus Moses went up into the mountain while the cloud was covering   the mountain.

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And  God's glory  continued to reside upon Mount Sinai, and  the cloud continued  to cover it for 6  days.     At  length  on the 7th day  he called to Moses  from the midst of the cloud.    And  to  the eyes of the sons of Israel  the sight of God's glory  was like a devouring fire on the mountaintop.    Then Moses  entered  into the midst of the cloud  and went  on up the mountain.   And Moses continued  in the mountain  40 days and  40 nights.      25   And God proceeded to  speak to Moses, saying -- "Speak to the sons of Israel,  that  they  may take up the contribution  for me -- From  every man whose  heart that incites him  you people are to take up  the contribution of mine.   And this  is the  contribution that you are to take up  from them -- gold and silver and copper,  and  blue  thread, and wool dyed reddish purple,  and coccus scarlet material (natural crimson dye),  and  fine linen and goats hair,  and ram skins dyed red, sealskins,  and  acacia wood -- oil for the luminary (oil for the light/lamp),  balsam oil for the anointing oil   and for the perfumed incense --  and onyx stones  and  setting stones for the ephod  and for the  breastpiece (garments worn by high priest).   And they must make  a sanctuary (safe haven) for me,  as I must tabernacle (God worship tent or building)  in  the  midst of them.      According to all  that  I am showing you as the pattern of the tabernacle and pattern of   all  its furnishings,  that  is the way you are to make it.     "And  they must  make an Ark made of acacia wood,  2 1/2 cubits  (3  feet and 9 inches.  1 cubit is 18 inches.)  its length,  a cubit and a half   (1 1/2 cubits = 2 feet 3 inches)  its width  and a cubit and half its height (2 feet 3 inches).   And  you must  overlay it with pure gold.   Inside and outside you are to over lay it.  and  you must  make a border of gold round  about upon it.   And you must put 4 rings of gold for it  and  put  them  above its  4 feet,  with  2 rings upon the one side of it  and  2  rings upon  its other side.   And  you  must  make poles  of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.    And  you  must  put poles through the rings  upon the sides of the Ark  in order to carry the Ark with them.   In  the rings of the Ark, the poles are to stay.  They are not to be removed from it.   And you must  place in the Ark the testimony  that I  shall  give  you.     "And  you must make a cover of pure gold, 2 1/2 cubits  (3 feet and 9 inches) its length   and  a cubit  and a half  (1 1/2 cubits is 2 feet and 3 inches)  its width.  And you must make  2  cherubs  (angels) of gold.   Of  hammered work you are to make them at both ends of the cover.   And  make one cherub on this end   and  one cherub on that end.   On  the cover you are to make cherubs  at its two ends.     And  the cherubs  must  be  spreading out  their  2 wings upward,  screening  over the cover with their wings, with  their faces one toward the other.   Toward  the cover the faces of the cherubs should be.   And  you  must  place the cover above  upon the Ark,  and in the Ark you  will  place the testimony that I shall give  you.   And  I will present myself to you there   and speak with you from  above the cover,  from between the 2  cherubs  that are  upon the  ark of the testimony,   even  all that  I shall command you  for the sons of Israel.    "And  you must make  a table with acacia wood, 2 cubits  (3 feet)  its  length  and  a  cubit (1 cubit is 18 inches = 1  1/2 feet)  its width and a  cubit  and a half (Approx.  2' 3") its height.   And  you  must  overlay it in pure gold,  and you must  make  for it  a border of gold round about.    And  you  must make   for it  a rim  of a handbreath (width of a hand) round about,   and  you  must make a border of  gold  for 

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its rim round about.     And  you  must make  for it  4  rings of gold and place the rings  on the 4 corners  that are for the 4 feet.    The rings should be close by the rim  as  supports for the  poles to carry the table.     And  you must make the poles  of  acacia wood  and  overlay them with gold,  and they  must carry the table with them.    "And you must make  its dishes and  its  cups and  its  pitchers  and  its bowls  with which  they  will  pour libations (drink poured as offering to God).    And  you must make them out of pure gold.    And you  must put the showbread  upon  the table before me constantly.   "And  you  must  make  a lampstand of pure gold.    Of  hammered work the  lampstand is to be made.  Its base, its  branches,  its cups,   its knobs and its blossoms are to proceed out from it.   And 6  branches are running out from its sides, 3 branches of the lampstand from  its one side  and 3 branches  of the lampstand from  its other side.    3 cups shaped  like flowers of almond  are on the one set   of branches, with  knobs and  blossoms alternating,  and  3 cups  shaped like   flowers of  almond  on  the other set  of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating.   This is the way it is with the 6 branches running out from the lampstand.   And  on  the lampstand  are  4 cups  shaped  like flowers of almond, with  its  knobs and  its blossoms alternating,  and the knob under 2 branches is  out of it and  the  knob under the 2  other branches is out of it   and   the knob under 2 more branches  is out of it,  for  the 6 branches  running out from the lampstand.    Their knobs and  their branches are to proceed  out from it.    All of it is   one  piece of hammered  work of pure gold. And  you  must make 7 lamps for it -- and  the lamps  must be lit up,  and  they must shine upon the area  in front of it.   And its snuffers (snout) and its fire holders are of pure gold.    Of  a talent of pure gold he should make it  with all these utensils of it.    And  see that you make them after their pattern that was shown to you in the mountain.          26     "And the  tabernacle (God worshipping tent or building) you are to make of 10  tent cloths of fine twisted linen and  blue thread  and wool  dyed reddish  purple and coccus scarlet material (natural crimson dye).    With  cherubs (angels),  the  work of an  embroiderer, you will make them.   The  length of each tent cloths is 28 cubits (approx. 42 feet)  and  the width  of each tent cloth is 4 cubits (approx. 6 feet). There is 1 measure for all the tent cloths.     5  tent cloths  are to  form a series with  the one joined to the other.   And   you must make  loops of  blue thread upon the edge of  the  1 tent cloth  at the end of the series --  and  you are to do the same upon the edge of the outermost tent cloth at  the other place of junction (connection).      You  will make  50 loops  on the  1  tent cloth,  and  50 loops  you will make  on the extremity  of  the tent cloth that is at the other place of   junction, the loops being  opposite  one to the other.      And  you  make 50 hooks of gold and join the tent cloths  one to  the other by means of   the  hooks,   and it must become one tabernacle.      "And  you must make cloths of goat's hair  for the tent upon the tabernacle.   You  will make  11 tent cloths.     The length of each tent cloth is 30 cubits (45 feet),   and the width of each tent cloths is 4 cubits (6 feet).    There is 1 measure for the 11 tent cloths.  And  you must join  

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  5 tent cloths by themselves and 6 tent cloths by themselves, and you must fold double the 6th  tent cloth at the forefront of the tent.     And  you must  make 50 loops upon the edge of the  1 tent cloth, the outermost one in the series, and 50 loops upon the edge of the tent cloth at the other place of junction.    And  you must make 50  hooks of copper and put the hook in the loops and join the tent together,  and it must become one.    And what remains over  of the cloths of the tent) is over  an  overhanging.   1/2  of the tent cloth that remains over is to  hang over  the back of the tabernacle.   And the  cubit  (approx. 18 inches)  on this side and the cubit on that side in what remains over in the length of the cloths of the the tent will serve as an overhanging on the sides of the tabernacle, to cover it on this side  and  on that.     "And you must make a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins up on top.     And  you must make the panel  frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing on end.   10  cubits  (15 feet)  is length of  a panel frame and a  cubit  and a half (1 1/2 cubit = 2' 3") is the width  of each panel frame.   Each panel frame has 2 tenons (joints) joined one to the other.   That is the way you will  do  with all the panel frames of the tabernacle.  And  you must  make panel frames  for the tabernacle,  20  panel frames  for the side toward the Negeb, to the south.     "And   you  will make 40 socket pedestals of silver under the 20 panel frames -- 2 socket pedestals under the  1 panel frame with its 2 tenons, and 2 socket pedestals under the other panel frame with its 2 tenons.  And  for the other side of tabernacle,  the  northern side --20 panel frames,   and  their 40 sockets pedestals of silver, 2 socket pedestals under the 1 panel frame and 2 socket pedestals under the other panel frame.   And for the rear sections  of the tabernacle  to the west you will make 6 panel frames.   And you  will make  2 panel frames as corner posts of the tabernacle on its 2 rear sections.   And they should be duplicates at the bottom, and together they should be duplicates up  to the top of  each one at the 1st ring.    That is the way it should be for the 2  of them.  They will serve  as 2 corner posts.   And there must  be 8 panel frames and their socket pedestals of silver, 16 pedestals, 2 socket pedestals under   the  1 panel frame and  2 socket pedestals under the other panel frame.    "And  you must make bars of acacia wood,  5 for the panel frames of the one side of the tabernacle,   and 5 bars for the panel frames of the other side of the tabernacle and 5  bars for the panel frames of the side of the tabernacle for the 2 rear sections to the west.    And  the middle bar at the center of the panel frames  is running through from end to end.    "And  you will  overlay the panel frames with gold, and their rings you will make of gold as supports for the bars --  and you must overlay  the bars with  gold.   And you   must set up the tabernacle according to the plan of it that you have been shown in the mountain.     "And you must make a curtain of blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple  and coccus scarlet material (natural crimson dye) and fine twisted linen.    He will make it with cherubs (angels), the work of an embroiderer.     And you must put it upon 4 pillars of acacia overlaid   

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with gold.    Their pegs (bolts) are of gold.    They are upon  4  socket pedestals of silver.    And  you must put the curtain under the hooks and  bring the ark of the testimony  there  within  the curtain -- and the curtain must make a division for you between the Holy and the Most Holy.   And  you must put the cover upon the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy.    "And  you  must  set the table outside the curtain,  and  the lampstand  opposite the table  on the side of the tabernacle  toward the south --  and  the  table you will put on the north side.      And  you  must make  a screen for the entrance of the tent of blue thread and  wool dyed reddish purple  and coccus  scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver.    And  you must make for the screen 5 pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold.   Their pegs are of gold.   And you must cast for them 5 socket pedestals of copper.         27  "And  you  must make  the altar of acacia wood, 5 cubits (7 1/2 feet)  its length and  5 cubits (7 1/2 feet) its width.     The  altar should be 4square,   and  it's height 3 cubits (4 1/2 feet).    And you must  make its horns upon its 4 corners.  Its horns will proceed out of it,  and  you  must overlay it with copper.    And you  must make its cans for clearing away its fatty ashes,  and its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its  fire holders --  and you will  make all its utensils of copper.   And you mast make a  grating for it,  a network of copper -- you must  make upon the net 4 rings of copper at  its 4 extremities.    And you must  put  it under the altar's rim down within, and  the net must be toward the center of the altar.    And you must make poles for the altar,  its  poles being of acacia wood, and  you must  overlay them with copper.    And its poles must be put into the rings, and the poles must be upon the 2 sides of the altar when carrying it.     A   hollow (empty) chest of planks you will make it.   Just  as he showed you in the mountain, so they will make it.    "And  you must make the courtyard of  the tabernacle.     For the side toward the Negeb, to the south, the courtyard has hangings of  fine twisted linen, a 100 cubits (150 feet) being the  length  for the  one side.    And its  20 pillars and  their  20 socket pedestals are of copper.   The pegs of the pillars and their joints are of silver.    So, too, it is  for the  north side  in length,   the hangings  being  for a 100 cubits (150 feet) of length,   and its 20 pillars and their 20 socket pedestals being of copper,  the  pegs  of the pillars and their  joints of silver.    As for the width of the courtyard, on the west side of the hangings are  of  50 cubits (approx. 75 feet), their pillars 10 cubits (15 feet), and their socket pedestals 10 cubits  (15 feet).     And the  width  of the courtyard  on the east side toward the sunrising is 50 cubits (75 feet).    And  there are 15 cubits (22 1/2 feet) of hangings to one side, their pillars  being 3 cubits  (4 1/2 feet), and their socket pedestals 3 cubits (4 1/2 feet).   And  for the other side there are  15 cubits (22 1/2 feet) of hangings, their pillars  being  3 (cubits, 4 1/2 feet) and their socket pedestals 3 (cubits, 4 1/2 feet).    "And for the gate of the courtyard there is a screen  20 cubits (30 feet) long,  of  blue thread, and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet (natural crimson dye) material  and  fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver, their pillars being  4 cubits (6 feet)  and their socket pedestals 4 cubits  (6 feet).    All the pillars of the courtyard round about have fastenings of silver, and  their pegs of silver but their socket  

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pedestals are of copper. The length of courtyard is 100 cubits (150 feet), width 50 cubits (75 feet), height 5 cubits (7 1/2 feet) of fine twisted linen, and their socket pedestals being  of copper.   And all the  utensils of the tabernacle in all its service,  and all the  tent pins,  and all the pins of  the courtyard  are of copper.    "As for you,  you  are to command (order) the sons of Israel  that  they get for you   pure, beaten olive oil for the  lunimary, in order to light up the lamp constantly.     In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain, that is by the Testimony, Aaron and his sons will  set it in order from evening till morning before   God.     It  is a statute (regulation, law, rule) to time indefinite for their generations, to be  performed  by   the sons of Israel.        28   "And  as for you, bring   near to  yourself  Aaron your brother  and his sons with him  from midst of  the sons of Israel that he may act as priest to me,  Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar,  the sons of Aaron.     And  you  must make holy garments for Aaron  your brother, for glory and beauty.    And you  yourself  are to  speak to  all the  ones wise with  a heart, that I have filled with the spirit of wisdom,   and  they must make Aaron's garments for sanctifying him, that   he  may  act as a priest to me.     "And these are the garments that they will make -- a breastpiece, and an  ephod (ancient sleeveless garment Jewish priests wore), a sleeveless coat, a   robe of checkerwork, a turban and a sash --  and they must make the holy garments  for Aaron your brother and his sons,  that  he may act as priests to me.    And they themselves will take the gold and the blue thread  and the wool dyed reddish purple  and  coccus  scarlet material and the fine linen.    "And they must make the ephod of gold, blue thread and  wool dyed reddish purple, coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of embroiderer.      And   it  is to have  2  shoulder pieces  to be  joined together  at its 2 extremities, and  it must be joined.    And the girdle, which is upon it  for tying it close,   according to its workmanship  should  be of  its materials, of gold,  blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material (natural crimson dye) and fine twisted linen.     "And you must take 2 onyx stones and engrave  upon them  the names of the sons of Israel, 6 of their  names  upon  the one stone, and  the names of  the 6  remaining  ones  upon the  other stone in the order of their births.     With  the work of a  craftsman in stones, with the engravings of a seal,  you  are to engrave the 2 stones  with the names of sons of Israel.   Set  in  settings of gold is  how you make them.    And  you  must  put the 2  stones upon the shoulder pieces  of  the  ephod  as memorial  stones of the sons of Israel -- and Aaron must carry their  names before  God upon his  2 shoulders  as a memorial.     And  you  must make settings of gold,   and  2 chains of pure gold.    As  cords, you will make them, with the workmanship of a rope -- and you must attach the ropelike   chains to the settings.     "And you must make the breastpiece of judgment  with the workmanship of an embroiderer.    Like the workmanship of the ephod   you will make it.   Of gold, blue thread  and  wool dyed reddish purple  and coccus scarlet material  and fine twisted linen  you will make it.     It should  be  4square  when doubled,   a span  of the hand  being its  length and   a span  of the hand  its   

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 width.   And  you must fill  it with a filling of stones,  there  being  4 rows of stones.   A   row of ruby, topaz  and  emerald is  the 1st row.   And  the 2nd row is turquoise, sapphire and jasper.     And  the  3rd  row is leshem (Hebrew--precious gem) stone, agate  and amethyst.   And  the 4th row  is chrysolite (gemstone)  and onyx and jade.    Sockets of gold should be their fillings.   And  the stones should be according to the names of the sons of Israel, the 12 according to their names.   With the engravings of a seal they should be, each one according to its name, for the 12 tribes.     "And you must make upon the breastpiece   wreathed chains,  in ropework, of pure gold.   And  you  must  make upon the breastpiece   2 rings of gold,  and  you must  put  the 2 rings upon  the 2 extremities of the breastpiece.   And  you  must  put the  2 ropes of gold through the 2 rings at the extremities of the breastpiece.    And  you  will  put the 2 ends of  the 2 ropes through the 2 settings, and  you must put them upon the shoulder pieces  of the ephod,  at the forefront of it.    And  you must make   2 rings of gold and set them  at the 2 extremities of the breastpiece upon its edge that is on the side toward the ephod inward.    And  you must   make  2  rings of gold and put them upon the 2 shoulder pieces of the ephod from below, on its forefront, near its place of joining, above the girdle of the ephod.      And  they will bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue string, that  it may continue above the girdle of the ephod and the breastpiece  may not get displaced from  on top of the ephod.    And  Aaron must carry the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of judgment  over his heart when he comes into the Holy as a memorial before   God  constantly.      And  you  must put the Urim and the Thummim  into the breastpiece of judgment, and they must prove  to be over Aaron's heart when he comes in before   God -- and Aaron  must carry the judgments of the sons of Israel over  his  heart before Jehovah constantly.    "And  you  must make the sleeveless  coat of the ephod completely   of blue thread (fabric).     And there must be an opening  at its top in the middle of it.     Its opening should have a border round about,  the product of  a loom (textile) worker.   Like the opening of a  coat of mail it should be for it, that  it may not be torn.    And  you  must   make  upon the hem of it pomegranates of blue thread   and wool dyed reddish purple   and coccus scarlet material,  upon its hem round about, and bells of gold in between them round about -- a  bell of gold and a pomegranate, a bell of gold and a pomegranate upon the hem of the sleeveless coat round about.    And   it must be upon Aaron  that he may minister, and the sound from him must be heard  when  he goes into  the sanctuary before   God  and when  he comes out, that he may not die.      "And you must make a    shining plate of pure gold and engrave upon it  with the engravings of a seal,  'Holiness belongs to   God.'      And  you must fasten it with a blue string, and it must come  to be upon the turban.    On  the forefront  of the turban  it should be.      And  it must come  to be  upon Aaron's forehead,  and Aaron must answer for the error committed  against the holy objects, which sons of Israel will sanctify, that is to say, all their  

 

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holy gifts -- and it must stay upon his forehead constantly, to gain approval for them before God.     "And you must weave in checkerwork, the robe of fine linen and you will make a sash, the work of a weaver.    "And for Aaron's sons you will make robes, and you must make sashes for them, and you will make headgears for them for glory and beauty.       And with them you must clothe Aaron your brother and his sons with him, and you must anoint (bless, ordain) them and fill their hand with power and sanctify them, and they must act as priests to me.   And make drawers of linen for them to cover the naked flesh. From the hips to the thighs they are to extend.    And they must be upon Aaron and his sons when they come into the tent of meeting or when they go near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they may not incur error and certainly die.    It is a statute (law, rule) to time indefinite for him and his offspring after him.       29  "And this  is the thing that you are  to do  to them to  sanctify them for acting as priests to me -- Take a young bull and  2 rams, sound  ones,  and unfermented bread  and  unfermented ring-shaped cakes moistened with oil and unfermented  wafers smeared with oil.  Out of  fine  wheat flour you  will  make them.      And you them upon a basket and present them in the basket  and present  them in the basket,  and also the bull and the 2 rams.    "And  you will  present Aaron  and his sons  at the entrance  of the tent meeting,  and you must wash them with water.   Then  you  must take the garments and  clothe Aaron  with  the robe and  the sleeveless coat of ephod and with the ephod and the breastpiece, and you must tie it closely to him with the girdle of the ephod.    And you must  set the turban  upon  his head  and put the holy sign  of dedication  upon the turban.    And you must take the anointing oil  and  pour   it upon  his head and anoint (sanctify, purify, bless) him.     "Then  you  will  bring  his sons  near and  you must clothe them with   the robes.   And  you  must gird  them with the sashes, Aaron as well as his sons and you must wrap  the headgear upon them-- and the priesthood  must   become theirs  as  a statute (regulation, law, rule)  to time indefinite.   So  you  must fill the hand  of his hand of  his sons with  power.  "You  must  now  present the bull before the tent  of meeting, and Aaron  and his sons must lay  their  hands  upon the bull's head.   And you must slaughter  the bull's blood  and  put it with your finger  upon  the horns of the altar,  and  all the rest of the blood  you  will  pour  out at the base of altar.  And  you  must  take all the fat that covers the intestines,  and  the appendage upon the liver, and the 2 kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,  and you must make them smoke upon the altar.   But the bull's flesh and its skin and its  dung you  will burn with fire outside the camp.   It is a sin offering (it is purification offering at the altar for sin, worshipping asking God).    "Then you will take the  one ram and Aaron and his sons must  lay their hands upon the ram's head.   And  you must  slaughter the  ram and take its blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.    And you  will cut up the ram into   its pieces,  and  you must wash its intestines and its shanks and put  

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its pieces to one another  and up to its head.    And  you must  make the entire  ram smoke upon the altar.    It   is  a burnt offering  to Jehovah, a restful odor.     It  is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.   "Next, you must take the other ram,  and Aaron  and his sons must  lay  their  hands upon the the ram's head.    And  you must slaughter  the ram and  take some of its blood and put it upon the lobe of  his sons right ear  and  upon the thumb of their right hand and  the big toe of their right foot,  and you  must sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar.   And  you  must take some of the blood that is upon the altar and some of the anointing oil,  and  you must spatter  it upon Aaron and his garments  and upon his sons  with him,  that he and his  garments  and his  sons garments  and the garments  of his sons  with him  may indeed be holy.   "And  you must take from the  ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat  that  covers  the intestines,  and  the appendage  of the liver, and  the 2 kidneys  and the  fat that is upon them,  and the right leg, for it is a ram of installation (ordination--put in order, position of religious authority),  also round loaf of bread and ring shaped cake  of oiled bread  and a  wafer out of the basket of unfermented  cakes  that is before  God.   And you must  place them all upon the palms of  Aaron  and upon the palms of his sons,  and you must wave them to and fro  as a wave offering  before God.    And  you must take them off  their hands   and make  them smoke  upon the altar  upon the burnt offering as a restful odor before  God.      It  is  an offering made by fire to   God.   "And you must take the breast of  the ram of  installation,  which is for Aaron, and wave it to and fro as a wave offering before God, and it must become your portion.   And you must  sanctify the  breast of the wave offering  and the leg of the sacred portion  that was waved  and that was  contributed  from the  ram of  installation,  from what was for Aaron and from what was for his sons.   And  it must become  Aaron's and his sons' by a regulation to time indefinite  to be performed  by  the sons of Israel,  because  it is  a sacred portion -- and it will become a sacred portion  to be rendered  by the sons of Israel.     From  their communion  sacrifices   it  is their sacred portion for  God.    "And the holy garments   that  are Aaron's  will  serve for  his sons after him  to  anoint them in them  and  to  fill their hand with power in them.    7  days the priest who   succeeds  him  from among his sons  and  who comes  into the tent of meeting to  minister  in the holy place will wear them.    "And  you will take the ram of  installation, and  you must boil  its flesh  in a holy place.    And  Aaron and his sons  must  eat the flesh of  the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the tent meeting.      And they must  eat  the things with which atonement (amends, restitution, restoration for wrong doing) has been made to  fill their hand  with power, in order to sanctify them.   But a stranger may not eat them, because they are something holy.    And  if any of the flesh of the  installation  sacrifice  and of the bread should be  left over until the morning, then  you  must burn what is left over with fire.    It  must not be eaten, because it is something holy.    "And you must do this way to Aaron and his sons according  to all that I have commanded you.   You will take 7 days  

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to fill their hands with power.    And you will  offer the bull of the sin offering daily for an atonement,  and you  must purify  the altar  from  sin by your making atonement over it,  and  you must anoint  it to sanctify it.    You  will take  7 days  to make atonement  over the altar,  and  you must sanctify  it that it may indeed   become most holy altar.    Anyone  who  touches  the altar is to be holy.     "And  this is  what  you  will offer upon the altar -- young rams each 1 year old,  2   a day constantly.     And  you will offer the young ram in the morning,  and  you will offer  the other young ram between  the 2 evenings.   And  a 10th part of an ephah (1/10 ephah is 2.2  liters) of fine flour moistened   with 4th of a  hin (Hin=3.67 liters. 4th of hin is 1/4 hin = 0.92 liter = 3.83 cups) of beaten oil, and a drink offering of the 4th of a hin of wine, will go for the 1st young ram.    And you will offer the 2nd young ram between the 2 evenings.    With  a grain offering  like that of the morning   and with a drink offering like its, you will render it as a restful (pleasant) odor, an offering made by fire to  God.   It is a constant burnt offering throughout  your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before   God, where I  shall  present  myself to you people to speak to there.     "And  I will present   myself there  to the sons of Israel, and  it will certainly be sanctified by my glory.   And  I will sanctify the tent of meeting  and the altar -- and I  shall sanctify  Aaron and his sons for them to act  as priests to me.    And  I will tabernacle  in the midst  of the sons of Israel, and I will prove to be their God.     And  they will certainly know that I am  God their  Lord, who brought them out of Egypt that I may tabernacle in the midst of them.   I am God their  Lord.          30   "And  you must  make an altar as a place for burning incense  out  of acacia  wood you will make it.     A  cubit  (approx. 18 inches) in length and width,  it  should  be   4square, and  its height  2 cubits (36 inches or 3 feet),  its  horns  extend  out of it.   And  you must  overlay it with pure gold,  its top surface and its sides round about and its horns -- and you must  make a border  of gold round about for it.    You will  also  make for it  2 rings of gold.   Down  below  its border upon 2  of its  sides you will make them, upon 2 opposite sides of it,  as  they must serve  as supports for the poles  with which to carry it.    And you  must  make the poles of acacia wood and  overlay them with gold.    And  you must put it before the curtain that is near  the ark of the testimony, before the cover that is over the Testimony, where I  shall present myself to you.    "And  Aaron  must make perfumed  incense smoke upon it.     Morning by morning,  when  he dresses the lamps, he will make it smoke.    And  when Aaron  lights up  the lamps between the 2 evenings, he will make it smoke,  it  is  an  incense  constantly  before God  during your generations.   You must not offer  upon it illegitimate  incense or a  burnt offering or a grain offering, and you must not pour a drink offering upon it.    And  Aaron must make atonement upon its horns once a year.   With some of the blood of the sin offering of the atonement he will make atonement for it once a year during your generations.    It  is most holy to  God."   And  God went to speak to Moses, saying, "Whenever  you take the sum of the sons of Israel as a census of them, then  they must each give a ransom for his soul to the Lord when taking a census  of 

  

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 them,  that  there  may be no plague (sickness) upon them when taking a census of them.     This  is what all those will give  who  pass over to those numbered-- a 1/2 shekel by the shekel ("dollar") of the holy place.    20 gerahs (is 1 "dollar". 1 gerah =5 "cents") equal a shekel.   A  1/2 shekel is the contribution to God.   Everyone passing over to those  registered from  20 years old  and upward  will give God's contribution.    The  rich  should  not give more,  and the  lowly (poor) must not give less than the 1/2 shekel,  in  order to give God's contribution so as to make atonement for your souls.   And  you  must  take the silver money of the atonement  from the sons of Israel  and give it  in behalf of the service of the tent meeting,  that  it may  indeed  serve  as  a memorial before  God for the sons of Israel, to make  atonement for your souls."    And God spoke further to Moses, saying, "You  must make a basin of copper  and its stand of copper for washing, and  put it  between  the tent of meeting   and the altar and put water in it.     And  Aaron and  his sons must wash their hands and feet in it. When they  go into the  tent of meeting they will wash with water that they may not die, or  when they go near the altar to minister in order to make an offering made by fire smoke to God.     And they must wash their hands and feet  that they may not die, and  it must serve as a  regulation to time indefinite for them, for him and  his offspring throughout  their generations."      And God continued to   speak to  Moses,  saying, -- "As for you, take  to  yourself  the choicest perfumes -- myrrh (gum resin) in congealed (semisolid)  drops 500 units, and sweet cinnamon  in  1/2  that amount,  250 units,  and sweet calamus   250 units,  cassia  500 units  by  the shekel of the holy place, and olive oil a hin (3.67 liter).      Then  you  must make  out  of  it  a holy anointing oil, an ointment, a mixture that  is the work of an ointment maker.    It  is  to be  a holy   anointing oil.     "And  you must  anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,  and the table and all its utensils and the lampstand  and its utensil and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and the basin and its stand.    And  you must sanctify  them that they may indeed become most holy.     Anyone  touching  them is to be holy.   And  you  will anoint Aaron and his sons,  and you must sanctify them  for acting as priests to me.     "And  you  will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, "This  is to continue as a holy anointing oil to me during your generations.    It is not to be  rubbed in the flesh of mankind, and with its composition you must not make any like it.     It is something holy.     It  is  to continue as something holy for you.    Anyone   who makes  an ointment  like it  and who  puts some of  it upon  a stranger   must  be cut off from his people.'"     And God went on to say to Moses --  "Take   to  yourself  perfumes -- stacte  drops and onycha and perfumed galbanum and  pure frankincense (aromatic resin).    There  should be the same portion of each.    And  you must  make into incense, a spice mixture, the work of an ointment maker, salted, pure, something holy.    And  you must  pound some of it into fine powder and put some of it before the Testimony (formal statement, evidence)  in the tent of meeting,   where I  shall  present  myself to you.      It  

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   should be most holy to you people.     And the incense that you will make with this composition,  you  must not make for yourselves.    For  you  it is to continue  as something holy to God.     Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its smell  must  be cut off from his people."          31    And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying  -- "See, I do call by name Bezalel, the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah."     And  I shall  fill him with the spirit of God in wisdom  and  in understanding  and  in knowledge and in every kind of craftmanship,  for  designing devices, for working  in gold and  silver and copper, and in working of stones to set them and in working of wood to make products of every kind.     As  for me, look!   I  do put with him Oholiab  the son  of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the heart of everyone wise of heart  I do put wisdom,  that  they may indeed  make everything  I have  commanded  you --  the tent of meeting and the Ark for  the testimony and the cover that is upon it,  and  all the utensils of the tent,  and  the table and its utensils, and the  lampstand  of pure gold and all its utensils, and the altar  of  incense,  and the altar of burnt  offering and all its utensils,  and the basin  and its stand,  and the  garments of knitted work and  the holy garments for Aaron on the priest and the garments of his sons  for acting as priests -- and the anointing oil  and the perfumed incense for the sanctuary.    According  to everything I have  commanded  you they will do."     And God said further to Moses -- "As for you, speak to sons of Israel, saying,  'especially my sabbaths you are to keep, for it is a sign between me and you  during your generations that you may know that I  God am sanctifying you.     And you must keep the sabbath,  for  it is something holy to you.   A  profaner (non-religious, secular) of  it  will positively  be put to death.     In  case there  is anyone doing work on it, then that  soul must be cut  off from  the midst of his people.     6  days the work  be done, but  on the 7th  day is a sabbath of complete rest.   It  is something  holy to God.     Anyone doing work on the sabbath day will positively be put to death.    And  the sons of Israel must keep the sabbath so as to carry out  the sabbath   during their generations.      It is a covenant to time indefinite.    Between  me and  the sons of Israel  it is  a sign to time indefinite, because  in  6 days  God made  the heavens and the earth  on the 7th day he rested and refresh himself.'"     Now  as soon  as he had finished speaking with him  on Mount Sinai   he  proceeded  to give Moses 2 tablets of the Testimony, tablets  of stone written  on by God's finger.       32   Meanwhile the people got to see that Moses  was taking  a long time  about coming  down from the mountain.    So  the people congregated themselves about Aaron and said to him --  "Get up, make for us a  god who will   go  ahead of us,  because  as regards this  Moses, the man who led us up out of the land of  Egypt,  we certainly do  not  know what  has happened to him."    At this  Aaron said to them -- "Tear off the gold earrings  that are in  the ears of your wives,  of your sons and of your daughters and bring them to me."    And all the people took off the gold earrings  that were  in their ears and bring them to  

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           Aaron.     Then  he  took the gold from their hands, and he formed it with a graving tool and  proceeded to make it into a molten statue  of a calf.   And they began to say -- "This is your God,  O Israel, who led you  up out of land of  Egypt."     When  Aaron got to see  this,  he went to building  an altar before it.   Finally  Aaron called out and said -- "There is a festival to God  tomorrow."   So  on  the next day  they  were early  in rising, and  they  began offering  up burnt offerings  and presenting  communion sacrifices.  After  that people sat down to eat and drink.     Then  they  got up to have a good time.      God  now said to Moses -- "Go, descend, because your people whom you led  up out of the land of Egypt have acted ruinously.    They have turned aside in a hurry from the way   I  have  commanded them to go.    They  have made a molten statue of a  calf for themselves and keep bowing  down to it and sacrificing to it and saying -- "This  is your God, O Israel, who led you up out of  land of  Egypt.'"     And God went on to say to Moses -- "I  have looked at this people and here  it is a stiff-necked (proud, unwilling to do what other people want) people.    So now let me be, that my  anger may blaze against them and I may exterminate them,  and  let  me make you into a great nation."    And Moses proceeded to soften  the face of Lord his God and  to say --  "Why, O God, should your anger blaze  against  your people  whom  you brought out of  the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?    Why should the Egyptians say,  'With  evil intent  he brought them out in order  to kill them among  the mountains  and  to exterminate  them from the surface of the ground'?        Turn  away from your burning anger and  feel regret over the evil against  your people.    Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, in  that you said to them,  ''I shall multiply your   seed  like the stars of the heavens, and all this land  that I have designated  I  shall  give to your  seed  that  they may indeed take possession of it  time  indefinite.'"     And God  began to feel regret over the evil that he had spoken of doing  to his people.     After  that Moses  turned  and went  down from the mountain with the 2 tablets of the Testimony in his hand, tablets written on their both sides.  On this and  on that side they were written upon.    And  the  tablets were the workmanship of God,  and  the writing was the writing of God engraved  upon the tablets.     And  Joshua  began to hear the noise of the people  because of their shouting, and  he  proceeded  to say  to said to Moses -- "There is a noise of battle in the camp."   But  he said -- "It is not the sound of the singing  over  mighty performance,  And it is not the sound of the singing of defeat --  It  is the  sound of other singing that I am hearing."    So  it came  about as soon  as  he got near the camp  and could see the calf and the dances, Moses' anger  began to blaze, and  he at once  threw the tablets  from his hands and shattered  them at the foot of the mountain.    Then he took the calf that they had made and  he burnt it with  fire and crushed it till it was fine, after which he scattered it upon the surface of  the waters and made the sons of Israel drink it.     After that  
  

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   Moses said to Aaron -- "What  did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon it?"     To this  Aaron  said -- "Do not  let the anger of my lord blaze.      You yourself  well know  the people, that  they are evil-inclined.    So they said to me, 'Make for us a god who will go ahead of us, because regards this  Moses, the man who led us  up  out of the land of  Egypt, we certainly do  not   know what   has happened to him."    Hence  I  said to them, 'Who have  any gold?  They must  tear it off  themselves  that they may  give it to me.   And  I  proceeded  to  throw  it into fire  and  this  calf came  on  out."    And Moses got to see that  the people went unrestrained, because Aaron had let them go unrestrained for a disgrace among their opposers.    Then  Moses took his stand in the gate of the camp and said -- "Who is on God's side?   To me!"       And  all the sons of Levi  gathered  themselves to him.    He  now he said to them -- "This is what  God the Lord  of Israel has said,  'Put each one of you his sword on his side.     Pass   through and return from  gate to gate in the camp  and kill each  one  his brother  and each one his fellow  and  each one his intimate acquaintance."      And  the sons Levi proceeded  to do  as Moses had said.  so  that  there fell of the people on that  day about 300 men.     And  Moses went on to say -- "Fill  your hand  today with power for God, because  each one of you  is against  his own son  and his own brother,  and  that he may  confer   a blessing  upon you today."        And   it came about on the  very  next day  that Moses  proceeded to say  to  the people -- "You--you have sinned with a great sin, and now I shall  go up to  God.    Perhaps  I  can make  amends for your sin."       So  Moses returned to  God and said -- "Ah, but  this  people has sinned with a  great sin, in  that they made a god  for themselves!      But now if you will pardon their sin,  -- and if not,  wipe me out, please, from your book that you have written."    However, God said to Moses --  "Whoever   has  sinned against me,   I shall  wipe him out of my book.   And now,  come,   lead the people to where I have spoken to you of.      Look!  My angel  will go ahead of you,  and on  the day of my  bringing punishment  I shall  certainly  bring punishment  upon  them for their sin."     And  God  began plaguing (sickness, disease) the people because they had made the calf, which Aaron had made.            33    And  God said further to Moses, "Go, move up from here, you and the people whom you led out of  the land of Egypt, to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying -- 'To  your seed  I  shall give it.'   And  I will send an angel  ahead of you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey, for  I   shall not go up  in the midst of you, because you are a stiff-necked (stubborn) people,  that I  may not exterminate you on the way." When people got hear this evil word, they began to mourn -- and none of them put his  ornaments  on himself.   And God went on to say to Moses -- "Say to sons of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked  people.   In  one minute I could go up  into the midst of you and certainly exterminate (kill)  you.    So now put down your   ornaments  off yourself, as I want to know what I am going to do to you.'"   And the sons of Israel  

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    went stripping their  ornaments off themselves from Mount Horeb onward.   As for Moses, he  proceeded  to take  his tent away and   pitched  it outside the camp,  far away from the camp -- and  he called it a tent of meeting.    And it    occurred  that everyone  inquiring  of  God would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside of camp.    And   it occurred  that as soon as Moses went out  of the tent, all the people would rise, and they stationed themselves each one at the entrance of his own tent, and they gazed  after Moses until he went into the tent.    It also  occurred  as soon as Moses had gone into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down,  and  it stood at the entrance of the tent  and he spoke with Moses.     And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, and all the people rose and bowed down each one at the entrance of his own tent.    And  God spoke to Moses face to face, just as a man would speak to his fellow.   When  he returned to the camp,  his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, as attendant, would not withdraw from the midst of the tent.    Now  Moses said to   God --  "See you are saying to me -- 'Lead this people up'   but you  yourself  have not let me know  whom you will send with me.      Moreover, you yourself have said-- 'I  do know you by name and, besides, you have found favor in my eyes.'    And now,  if please, I found favor in your eyes, make me know please,  your ways, that I may know you, in order that I may find favor in your eyes.    And  consider this nation is your people."       So  he  said, "My  own person will  go along and I shall certainly give you rest." At this he said to  him -- "if  your own person  is not  going along,  do not lead us  up from here.    And by what,  now,  will  it be known that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people?    Is  it not by  your going along with us, in that I and your people have been made disctint  from  all the other people who are upon the surface of  ground?"    And  God went on to say to Moses -- "This thing, too, of which you have spoken, I will do, because you have found favor in my eyes and I know you by name."    At this  he  said, "Cause me to see, please, your glory."      But he said, "I  myself shall cause all my goodness  to pass before your face, and I will declare the name of Jehovah before you -- and I will favor the one whom I  may favor, and  I  will show mercy to the one to whom I will show mercy."   And  he  added-- "You are not able to see my face because  no man  may see me and yet live."    And  God said further, "Here is a place with me, and  you must station yourself upon the rock.     And  it has to  occur  while  my glory is passing  by  I  must place you in a hole in the rock, and I must put my  palm over you as a screen until I have passed by.   After that I must take my palm away, and you will indeed see my back.  But my face may not be seen."      34   Then God said to Moses --  "Carve out for yourself  2 tablets of stone like the 1st ones, and  I must write upon  the tablets the words that  appeared  on the 1st tablets which you  shattered.     And  get ready for the morning,  as you must go up in the morning into Mount Sinai  and station yourself  by me there on the top of the mountain.   But nobody  may go up with you and,  too,  let nobody else be     

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     seen in all the mountain.   What   is more, no flock or herd should be pasturing in front of that mountain."     Accordingly  Moses carved out 2 tablets of stone like the 1st ones, and got up early in the morning and went up into Mount Sinai,   just as God had ordered him, and he was taking the 2 tablets of stone in his hand.       And  God proceeded to come down in the cloud and station himself   with him there  and declare the name of Jehovah.  And   God  went passing by before his face declaring -- "Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, preserving loving-kindness for  1000s,   pardoning  error and transgression (wrong) and sin, but by no means will he  make exemption from punishment, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the grandsons and upon the 3rd  generation and upon the  4th generations."      Moses  at once hurried to  bow low to the earth  and prostrate (lay down with the face on the ground with arms stretched out) himself.   Then he said -- "if, now,  I  have found favor in your eyes, O God, please,  let  God go along  in the midst of us, because it is a stiff -necked  people,  and  you  have to  forgive our error and our sin, and you must take us as your possession.    In turn HE said --  "Here I am concluding  a  covenant -- Before all your people I shall  do wonderful things  that have never been created in all the earth  or among all the nations -- and all the people in the midst of whom you are  will  indeed see the work of  God, because it is fear inspiring  thing that I am doing with you.  "For your part  keep what I am commanding you today.   Here   I  am driving out from before you the Amorites  and the Canaanites  and the Hittites  and  the Perizzites  and the Hivites and the Jebusites.    Watch yourself that you do not   conclude  a covenant with   the inhabitants of  the land  to which  you are going,  for  fear it may prove  itself a  snare  in your midst.     But their  altars you people are to pull down, and their sacred pillars you are to shatter,  and  their sacred poles you are to cut down.    For  you  must not prostrate yourself  to another god, because God Jehovah whose name is Jealous,  he is a jealous God  -- For fear that you may conclude a  covemant with the inhabitants of the land,  as they   will  certainly  have immoral  interc*urse  with their gods  and sacrifice  to their gods, and  someone will be certain to invite you -- and  you will certainly eat some of his sacrifice.    Then  you will have  to take some of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters will be  certain to  have immoral  interc*urse  with  their gods  and make your sons have immoral interc*urse   with their gods.     "You must not make molten idol  gods for yourself.   The festival of unfermented cakes you to keep.   You  will eat unfermented cakes just  as I have   commanded  you, 7 days  at the appointed  time in the month of Abib (1st month of ancient Jewish calendar --April)    because it was in the month of Abib  that you came out of Egypt.    "Everything that was 1st  opens the womb (birthed, 1st born) is mine,  and, as regards all  your livestock,  the male  1stling of bull and of sheep.  And  the 1sling of an ass  you  are to redeem with a sheep.   But   if you will not  redeem   

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      it,   then  you must break its neck.   Every  1stborn of your sons you are to redeem (save).     And  they must not appear before me empty handed.    "6 days you are to  labor,  but on the 7th day you will keep sabbath.   In plowing time and in harvest  you  will keep sabbath.    "And  you  will carry on your festival of weeks with   the  1st ripe fruits of the wheat harvest,  and  the  festival of ingathering  at the  turn (end) of the year.      "3 times  in  the  year every male of yours  is to appear  before true Lord, God, the God of Israel.  For I shall drive the  nations away from before you,  and  I will make your territory spacious -- and  nobody will desire your land while you are going up to see the face of Jehovah your Lord   3 times  in  the year.   "You must not slaughter along  what is leavened  the blood of my sacrifice.   And the sacrifice of the festival of the passover   should not stay overnight   until the morning.   "The best of the 1st ripe fruits  of the soil  you are to bring to the house of God your  Lord.    "You  must not boil a kid  in  its mother's milk."    And God went on to say to Moses  -- "Write  down for yourself these words,  because  it is an accordance with  these words that I do  conclude   a covenant  with you and Israel."    And  he continued there with   God 40 days and 40 nights.   He ate no bread and drank no water.    And  he (Moses)  proceeded to write upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the  Ten Words (10 Commandments).  Now  it came about  when Moses came down  from Mount Sinai that the 2 tablets of the Testimony were in the hand of Moses  when he came down from the mountain, and  Moses  did not know that the skin of his face emitted rays because of his having spoken with him (God).    When  Aaron and all the sons of Israel got to see Moses, why,   look!    the skin of his face  emitted (gave) out rays and  they grew afraid of coming near him.    Moses proceeded  to call them,     So   Aaron  and all the chieftains   among the  assembly  came back to him,  and Moses began to speak to them.   1st  after that  all the sons Israel came near to him, and he began commanding  them  all that God had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.     When  Moses would finish speaking with them, he would put a veil over his face.   But  when Moses  would go  in  before God to speak with  him,  he would take  away  the veil  until his going out.    And  he went out and spoke  to the sons of  Israel  what he would be commanded.   And the sons of  Israel saw Moses' face,  that  the skin of  Moses'  face emitted rays --  and Moses put the veil back over his face until he went  in  to speak with him.        35    Later Moses  called  the entire  assembly  of the  sons of Israel together and said to them -- "These are the words that God has commanded, to do them -- 6 days  may  work be done, but on the 7th day it will become something holy to you, a sabbath of  complete rest to God.  Anybody  doing work  on it will be put  to death.   You  must  not light a fire in any  of your dwelling  places  on  the  sabbath day."    And  Moses   went  on to say  to  the entire  assembly of the sons of Israel -- "This  is the word that God has commanded,  saying,  'From among yourselves take  

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   up a contribution for God.    Let   every willing-hearted  one  bring it  as God's contribution, namely, gold and silver and copper  and  blue thread  and  wool dyed reddish purple  and  coccus scarlet material  and fine linen and goat's hair  and ram skins  dyed red and sealskins  and  acacia wood  and oil for the  luminary  and  balsam  oil for the anointing oil and for the perfumed incense  and  onyx stones  and  setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.      "'And let all the wise- hearted  ones  among you  come and make all that God has commanded,  namely, the tabernacle   with  its tent  and its covering, its hooks and its panel frames, its bars, its pillars and its socket pedestals, the Ark and its poles, the cover and the curtain of the screen --  the table and its poles, and  all its utensils and the show-bread  -- the lampstand of  illumination  and its utensils and its lamps   and the oil for illumination (light) --  and the altar of incense and its poles -- and the anointing oil and the perfumed incense -- and the screen of the entrance for the tabernacle's   entrance -- the altar of burnt offering  and the copper grating that is for it, its poles and all its utensils --  the basin and its stand -- the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its socket pedestals  and the screen of the gate of the courtyard --  the tent pins of the tabernacle  and  the tent  pins of the courtyard and their cords,  the garments  of  knitted work  for  ministering  in the sanctuary, the holy garments for   Aaron the priest  and  garments  of his sons  for acting as priests.'"      Accordingly  all the  assembly of the sons of Israel  went out from before Moses.   Then   they came,  everyone whose  heart  impelled (enslaved, obligated)  him,  and they brought, everyone whose spirit  incited (encourage)  him,   God's contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and  for  all its  service  and for the holy garments.   They  kept coming, the  men along with the women, every willing-hearted one.   They  brought  brooches  and earrings,  and  rings and female  ornaments,  all  sorts of articles of gold,  that is,  everyone  who presented   the  wave offering  of gold to God.    And  all  those   with  whom  there were  found  blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple  and  coccus scarlet material  and  fine linen  and goat's hair  and  ram skins  dyed red  and sealskins  brought them.     All  those contributing the contribution of silver and copper  brought God's contribution, and all those with whom  there was  found acacia wood for all the work of the service brought it.      And  all the women  who  were wise  of heart spun with their hands, and they  kept bringing  as  yarn the blue thread  and  wool dyed reddish purple,   the  coccus  scarlet material  and fine linen.    And  all the women whose  hearts  impelled  them  with  wisdom  spun the goat's hair.    And  the chieftains  brought onyx stones and   setting stones for ephod and the breastpiece. and the balsam oil and oil for  illumination and for the anointing oil and for the perfumed incense.    Every man and woman whose heart   incited  them   to bring something   for all the work that God had  commanded to  make by means of Moses did so  -- the sons of Israel bought a voluntary offering to God.      Then   Moses said to the sons of Israel -- "See God has   

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   called by name Bezalel  the son of Uri the son of  Hur of the tribe of Judah.    And he proceeded  to fill him with the spirit of God   in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge  and in every sort of craftsmanship  and for designing devices, for working in gold and silver and copper, and in working of stones to set them   and in working  of wood to make  ingenious products of every sort.      And  he has put  it into his heart  that he should teach, he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.     He has filled  them  with wisdom of heart to do  all the work of  a craftsman and  an embroiderer   and of a  weaver in blue thread  and wool dyed  reddish purple,  in  coccus scarlet material   and fine linen, and of a textile worker, men  doing every sort of work  and designing devices.         36   "And  Bezalel  must work, also Oholiab     and every wise-hearted man   to whom  God has given wisdom and understanding   in these  things  in order to know  how  to do all the work of the  holy service  according to   all that God has commanded."     And  Moses proceeded  to  call Bezalel and Oholiab and every wise- hearted man  into whose heart God had  put wisdom, everyone  whose heart  impelled  him to approach the work   in order to do it.    Then   they took from before Moses   all the contribution   that   the sons of   Israel had   brought for the work of the holy service so as to do it,   and   as for the latter,   they  still  brought to him a voluntary offering morning after morning.    And  all the wise ones who were doing all the holy  work began to come, one man after another, from their work that they were doing, and to say to Moses -- "The people are bringing much more than what the service needs for the  work that God has  commanded  to  be done."      So  Moses  commanded  that  they should cause an announcement to pass through the camp, saying  -- "Men and women, do not produce any more stuff   for the holy contribution."    With   that the people were restrained from bringing it in.       And  the stuff proved to be enough for all the work to be done, and more than enough.       And all the wise-hearted among those doing the work  went making the tabernacle, the  10 tent cloths of fine twisted linen  and blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple  and coccus scarlet material --  with  cherubs, the work of an embroiderer, he made them. The length of each   tent cloth was 28 cubits (approx. 42 feet),  and the width of each  tent  cloth  4 cubits (6 feet).   There  was 1 measure for  all the tent cloths. Then he joined 5  tent cloths one to another, and  the 5 other tent clothes he joined one to another.      After  that he  made loops  of blue thread  upon the edge of the one tent cloth at the  junction (connection)  end.       He  did the same  on the edge of the outermost  tent cloth  at  the other place of junction.    He made  50 loops on the one tent cloth, and he made 50 loops on the one tent cloth,  and  he made  50  loops on  the  extremity  of the tent cloth  that was at the other place of  junction, the loops  being opposite one another.    Finally  he made   50 hooks   of gold and  joined the tent cloths to one another by the hooks, so that it became one tabernacle.      And   he went on to make tent cloths of goat's  hair  for the tent upon the tabernacle.     11  tent cloths were what he made.      The  length of  each  tent  cloth was 30 cubits (45 feet),  and the width  of  each  tent  cloth  4 cubits (6 feet).  
 

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   There   was  1 measure   for the 11 tent cloths.    Then    he joined   5  tent cloths together   by themselves  and the  6  other tent cloths  by themselves.    Next  he made  50  loops  upon the edge of the outermost  tent cloth  at the place of  junction,  and  he  made  50   loops  upon the  edge  of the other  tent cloth that joined with it.     After  that he made   50 hooks   of copper   for joining  the tent together  to become one piece.    And  he proceeded to  make  a covering for the tent  out of ram skins  dyed red  and  a  covering out  of sealskins  up on top.     Then  be made  the  panel frames  for  the tabernacle  out  of acacia wood, standing on end.     10 cubits  was the length (15 feet)  of  panel frame, and  1 1/2 cubit (2 1/4 feet)  width  of  each panel frame.   Each  panel frame had 2   tenons (joints)  fitted one the other.     That is the way he did to all the panel frames     of the tabernacle.     So  he made  the panel  frames for the tabernacle, 20  panel frames   for the  side toward the Negeb, to the south.     And   he made   40  socket pedestals of silver  for beneath  the 20 panel frames, 2 socket pedestals beneath the one panel frame with  its 2 tenons,  and 2 socket pedestals beneath the other panel frame with its 2  tenons.   And for the other side of tabernacle, the northern side, he made 20 panel   frames, and their   40 socket pedestals of silver, 2 socket   pedestals   beneath  the one panel frame  and 2 socket pedestals  beneath  the  other panel frame.    And  for  the rear section to the tabernacle  to the west  he made 6 panel frames.     And  he made 2 panel   frames   as corner  posts of the  tabernacle  on its  2  rear sections.     And   they proved  be duplicates  at the bottom  and together they came to   be twins  to the top of  each   one at the 1st ring.     That   is  what he did  to them both,   to  the 2 corner posts.      So   they amounted  to 8 panel frames and their socket pedestals of silver  to 16,     2  socket pedestals next to 2 socket pedestals  beneath  each panel frame.    And  he went  on to make bars of acacia wood, 5 for the  panel frames  of the one side of the tabernacle  and   5  bars  for the panel frames  of the other side of the tabernacle  and  5   bars  for the panel frames  of  the  tabernacle  for  the 2 rear sections to the west.    Then  he made  the middle  bar  to run through  at the middle of  the panel frames  from  one end to the other.      And  he  overlaid   the  panel  frames  with gold,  and  he  made  their rings  gold  as supports  for the bars, and  he went  on  to overlay the bars with gold.      And  he proceeded   to  make a curtain  of blue thread  and wool  dyed reddish purple  and  coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen.    With  the work of an embroiderer he make it with cherubs.     Then he made for it  4   acacia  pillars  and overlaid them with gold, their pegs being of gold,  and  cast 4 socket  pedestals  of silver for them.     And  he  went  on  to  make a screen for the entrance of the tent out  of blue thread and   wool dyed reddish purple and  coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen,    the work  of a weaver, and   its  5  pillars  and their pegs.     And   he overlaid their   tops and their joints with gold, but their 5 socket   pedestals were of copper.         37     Bezalel  now  made  the Ark  of acacia  wood.    2  cubits and a half was its length  (3' 9")  and a cubit and a half its width  (2' 3"),           

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and a cubit and a half its height (2' 3").    Then   he overlaid   it  with  pure  gold inside and outside and  made a  border of gold   round bout for it.     After  that he  cast   4 rings  of  gold for it,  for   above   its  4 feet,  with  2 rings  on its one side, and 2 rings on its other side.    He next  made  poles  of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.    Then he put the  poles through the rings on the sides of  the Ark for  carrying the Ark.   And he went  on to  make  the cover of pure gold.     2 1/2 cubits (3' 9") in length, and  a cubit  and a half  (2' 3") its width.   He further  made  2 cherubs of gold.   Of  hammered  work  he made them on both  ends of the cover.     1  cherub was  on the end over there, and the other cherub on the end  over here.     He  made the cherubs on the cover on   both of its ends.     And   they  came to  be  cherubs  spreading  out  2 wings upward, screening  over  the cover  with their wings,  and   their  faces were one to the other.    The   faces   of the   cherubs  proved to be toward the cover.   And  he   proceeded  to   make the table of acacia wood.   2 cubits (3 feet)  was its length,  and  a cubit  (18 inches=1 1/2 feet) width,  and a cubit and a half (2' 3")    its height.     Then   he  overlaid  with pure gold and  made a  border of gold round about for it.   Next,  he  made for it a rim  of  a  handbreadth   round about and  a made a  border of gold  for  its rim round about.      Further,   he cast 4 rings of gold for it  and   put the rings upon the 4 corners that were for the 4 feet.    The  rings proved   to  be near the rim,  as  supports for  the poles for carrying the table.    Then  he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them  with gold for carrying  the table.   Aftrer he made  the utensils  that are upon the table,  its  dishes  and its  cups and its bowls  and its  pitchers  with  which libation (offering)  would be poured, out of pure gold.      Then   he  made the lampstand of pure gold.    Of  hammered work he made the lampstand.    Its  sides  and its  branches,  its  cups,   its  knobs  and blossoms proceeded out of it.      And  6  branches   were running out from its     sides,     3   branches of  the lampstand   out  from its one side   and  3 branches of the lampstand  out from its other side.   3   cups  shaped  like flowers of almond  were on  the  one  set of   branches,  with knobs  and blossoms alternating  --  and  3 cups  shaped like  flowers  of almond  were on the other set of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating.      That  is  the way  it was for  the  6  branches   running  out from the lampstand.     And   on the lampstand  there   were  4  cups shaped like flowers of almond, with  its knobs and its blossoms alternating.    And  the  knob  under 2 branches was out of it, and the knob under 2 other branches was out of it,   and  the knob under 2 more branches was out of it,   for  the  6 branches  running  out from the lampstand.     Their  knobs and   their branches   proceeded out from it.    All  of it was 1 piece  of hammered work, of pure gold.     Then   he made its 7 lamps   and its   snuffers, and its fire holders out of pure gold.    Of   a talent of pure  gold  he made  it  and all its utensils.      He now  made  the altar of incense out of acacia wood.      A  cubit (18 inches) was  its  length  and  a cubit (1  1/2') its  width,    it being a   foursquare,   and 2 cubits (3 feet)  was its height.     Its horns proceeded out of it.    Then   he overlaid   it with pure gold, its top surface and its sides. 

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  round about  and  its horns, and   he made a border of gold  round about for it.     And  he made for   it  2  rings  of gold  down below its border upon   2  of its sides, upon  2  opposite sides of it,   as  support  for the poles with which to carry it.      After  that he made  the poles of acacia  wood and  overlaid them with gold.     He made  additionally  the holy anointing oil and the pure, perfumed incense,   the work   of anointment maker.         38   And  he went on  to make  the altar of burnt offering out of acacia wood.   5 cubits (approx. 7 1/2 feet) its length and 5 cubits (7 1/2 feet) its width, it  being a foursquare, and 3 cubits (4 1/2 feet)  its height.    Then  he made   its horns upon  its 4 corners.   Its  horns proceeding out of it.   Next  he overlaid  it with copper.    After  that he made all the utensils of the altar,  the cans  and the shovels and the bowls, the forks  and the fire holders.    All  its utensils he made of copper.   He  further   made  for the altar  a grating,    network of copper,  under its rim,  down toward its center.     Then  he cast 4 rings on the 4 extremities near the grating of copper,  as  supports for the poles.     After   that  he made the poles of acacia wood  and   overlay them with copper.     Then  he put the poles into  the   rings on the sides of the altar for carrying   it with them.    He  made  it a hollow chest of planks.     Then  he made  the basin  of copper  and  its  stand of copper,   by  the use of  mirrors  of the women  servants  who did organized service   at the entrance of the tent of meeting.    And  he proceeded to make the courtyard.    For  the side toward the Negeb,  to  the  south the  hagings of the courtyard  were fine twisted linen, for   a  100 cubits (approx. 150 feet).   Their  20  pillars   and their   20 socket pedestals were of copper.    The pegs of the pillars and their joints were of silver.      Also,  for  the north side there were a  100 cubits (150 feet).    Their   20 pillars  and their 20 socket pedestals were of copper.     The  pegs  of  the pillars and their joints were of silver.    But  for the west side  the hangings   were for  50 cubits (75 feet).    Their pillars were 10 and their socket pedestals  10.      The  pegs of pillars and   their  joints were of silver.     And  for the east  side toward  the sunrising there were 50 cubits (75 feet).    The hangings were for 15 cubits (22 1/2 feet)  to the one wing, their pillars were 3 and their socket pedestals 3.     And  for the other wing,  on  this  as well  as that  side of the gate of the courtyard,   the  hangings were for 15 cubits (22 1/2 feet).    Their pillars were 3 and their socket pedestals 3.     All  the hangings of the   courtyard round about were of fine twisted linen.   And  the socket pedestals  for the pillars were of copper.    The pegs of the pillars and their   joints  were of silver  and overlaying  of their tops of silver, and there were silver joining for all the pillars of the courtyard.    And  the screen of the gate of the courtyard  was the  work of a weaver,  of  blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple  and  coccus  scarlet material  (crimson dye) and fine twisted linen,   20 cubits (30 feet) was  the length, and the height throughout its extent  was 5 cubits (7 1/2 feet) equally with the hangings of the courtyard.            And  their  4 pillars and  their  4 socket pedestals  were of copper.   Their pegs were of silver   and  the overlaying  of their  heads  and their joints were of silver.      And  all   the tent pins for the tabernacle and   for the courtyard round about of copper.     

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       The  following  are  the things  inventoried  of the tabernacle,  the tabernacle of the Testimony,   which   was inventoried   at  the command of Moses, as  the service of the Levites  under the guidance of Itharmar the sons of Aaron the priest.    And Bezalel  the sons of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah  did   all that God had  commanded Moses.    And  with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach  of the tribe of Dan, a  craftsman  and embroiderer and weaver  in  the blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and fine linen.     All  the gold  that was used for the work  in all the work of the holy place   came to the amount   of the  gold of the wave offering,   29  talents (2175 pounds)  and  730 shekels ("dollars" money)  by the shekel of the holy place.     And  the silver of the  ones registered  of the assembly  was a 100 talents (heaviest Biblical weight 1 talent is 75 lbs.) and 1775 shekels by the shekel of the holy place.   The 1/2 shekel for an individual was the 1/2 of a shekel by the shekel of the holy place, for  every  man who was  passing over  to those who were registered from  20 years of age and upward, amounting to 603,550.    And a 100 talents (7500 pounds)  of silver went into the casting of the socket pedestals of the holy place and the socket pedestals of the curtain.   A 100 socket pedestals   equaled a 100 talents, a  talent (75 pounds)  to  a socket pedestals.    And  out of the 1775  shekels  he made  pegs for the pillars and overlaid their tops and joined them together.    And   the copper of the wave offering was 70 talents (5250 pounds)  and 2400 shekels ("dollars"  money).   And   with this  he proceeded to make the socket pedestals of the entrance of the tent of meeting  and  copper  grating  that belonged to it, and  all the utensils of the altar, and  the socket pedestals of the courtyard round about, and the socket pedestals of the gate of the courtyard, and all the tent pins of the  tabernacle and  all  the tent pins of the courtyard round about.        39      And  out of the  blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material  they made garments  of  knitted  work for ministering  in the holy place.   So  they  made the  holy garments  for Aaron,  just  as God  had  commanded  Moses.     Accordingly  he made  the ephod (sleeveless garment Jewish priest wore) of gold,  blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen.   Then  they beat plates of gold to thin sheets, and  he  cut out  threads  to  work in among  the blue thread and the wool  dyed reddish  purple and the coccus  scarlet material  and the fine linen,  as the work of an embroiderer.   They  made  shoulder  pieces  for it that were  joined.   It  was joined  at  its  2  extremities.    And the girdle,  which was upon it  for tying it close,  was   of  the same  material  according  to its workmanship,  of gold,   blue thread,   and   wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and   fine twisted linen,  just  as God had commanded   Moses.    Then   they  made  the onyx  stones  set with settings of gold, engraved with the engravings  of a seal  according  to  the names of the sons of Israel.    So  he  placed  them  upon  the  shoulder  pieces of the ephod  as memorial stones for the sons of Israel,  

 

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 just as God had commanded Moses.   Then  he  made  the breastpiece  with  the   workmanship  of  an  embroiderer,  like  the workmanship  of  the ephod,  out   of gold,  blue thread  and  wool dyed  reddish purple  and coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen.     It  proved to be foursquare when doubled.     They made the breastpiece, when doubled,  a span of a hand in its  length and a  span  of a hand in  its  width.    Then they filled  it with 4 rows of stones.    A  row  of  ruby, topaz and emerald was the 1st row.   And  the 2nd row was turquoise, sapphire and jasper.   And  the  3rd row  was  leshem (precious gem)   stone, agate and amethyst.   And  the 4th row  was chrysolite and onyx and jade.    They  were  set  with settings of gold  in their fillings.    And  the stones were  according  to the names of the sons of Israel.   They   were  12 according to  their names,  with  the engravings of a seal, each according to its name for the 12 tribes    And  they proceeded  to  make upon  the breastpiece   wreathed chains,   in ropework, of pure gold.    Then  they made 2  settings of gold  and 2 rings of gold and put the  2 rings upon  the 2 extremities of the breastpiece.   After  that they put  the 2 ropes of gold  through  the 2 rings at the extremities    of the breastpiece.   And  they  put  2 ends of the 2 ropes  through  the  2 settings.    Then  they  put them  upon the shoulder pieces of the ephod,  at the forefront of it.    Next   they  made  2 rings  of gold and  set them at the 2 extremities of the breastpiece  upon  its  edge  that  is  on  the side toward the ephod inward.     Then   they  made  2  rings of gold and  put them upon the 2 shoulder pieces   of the  ephod from below, on its forefront, near  its place of joining,  above  the girdle of the ephod.    Finally   they  bound  the  breastpiece by its rings to  the rings of the ephod  with a blue string,   that it might continue  above the girdle of the ephod  and  the breastpiece  might  not get displaced  on top   the ephod, just as God had commanded Moses.    Then  he made  sleeveless coat of the ephod,  the workmanship of  a loom worker,  all  of blue thread.     And  the  opening  of the sleeveless coat was in the middle of it,   like the opening of a mail.    Its  opening  had  a  border round about that it might not be torn.     Then   they made  upon the hem  of  the sleeveless coat pomegranates of  blue thread  and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material, twisted together.    Further,  they  made  bells  of pure gold and put the bells in between   the  pomegranates   upon  the hem of the sleeveless coat round about,  in between   the pomegranates -- a  bell and a  pomegranate   upon   the hem  of the sleeveless  coat round about, for ministering, just as God had ordered Moses.    Next   they  made the robes of fine linen, the workmanship of a  loom worker, for  Aaron  and his sons, and  the  turban of fine linen and  the ornamental  headgears  of  fine linen  and  the linen drawers of fine twisted linen, and  the sash  of fine twisted linen  and  blue thread and  wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material, the work of a weaver, just as God had commanded Moses.    Finally  they  made the shining plate, the holy sign of dedication, out  of pure gold and inscribed  upon it  an inscription with the engravings of a seal -- "Holiness belongs to God Jehovah."  

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Then  they  put a  string of blue thread to  it  in  order to put it upon the turban up above, just as God had ordered Moses.    So  the work for the tabernacle of the tent  of meeting  all  came to its completion, in that the sons of  Israel  kept  doing  according  to all that  God  had  commanded Moses.    They did just so.     And  they  proceeded  to bring tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils,  its  hooks,  its  panel frames,  its bars  and its pillars and socket pedestals, and  its covering  of ram skins dyed red  and its covering sealskins  and the curtain of the screen,  and  the ark of the testimony and its poles, and the cover, the table,  all  its utensils  and  the showbread, the lampstand of  pure gold, its lamps,  the row of lamps, and all its utensils and the oil of illumination, and  the altar  of gold and the anointing oil and perfumed incense, the screen  for the entrance of the tent,   the altar of copper and the grating of copper that belonged to it,    its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand,   the hangings  of the courtyard, its pillars  and  its socket pedestals and the screen  for the gate of the courtyard, its tent cords and its tent pins and all   the utensils  for  the service of the tabernacle,  for the tent  of  meeting, the  garments  of  knitted  work  for ministering  in the sanctuary,  the holy garments for Aaron the priest and  the garments of his  sons for acting as priests.    According  to all that God had commanded Moses, that  was the way the sons of Israel did all the service.     And  Moses got to see all the work, and look!   they had  done it  just as God had  commanded.   That was the way they had done.     Consequently Moses blessed them.          40  Then  God  spoke to Moses, saying -- "On the  day  of the 1st month,   on  the  1st  of the month,  you  are to set up the tabernacle of the tent  of  meeting.   And  you must  place the ark of  the testimony   in  it and  shut  off approach  to the Ark with the curtain.    And  you  must  bring  the table  in and  set its arrangements  in  order,  and  you  must  bring  in  the lampstand  and light up the lamps.   And you must put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony and put the screen of the entrance for the tabernacle in place. You must put the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of  meeting, and you must  put the  basin between the tent of meeting and the altar  and put  water  in it.    And you  must  place  the courtyard  round about and  put  up  the screen  of the gate of the courtyard.    And you  must  take the anointing oil  and anoint (religious ceremony of conferring with Divine--for Holy office by rubbing oil)   the  tabernacle  and  all  that is  in it,  and  you must sanctify (purify, cleanse, bless)  it  and  all its utensils,  so  it  must  become   something holy.      And  you  must anoint  the altar of burnt offering and all    its  utensils  and  sanctify the altar,   and  so it  must become  a  most holy altar.     And you  must  anoint  the basin   and  its stand  sanctify it.    "Then  you must bring Aaron and his sons   near to the entrance of the tent of  meeting and wash them with water.      And  you must  clothe  Aaron  with  the holy garments  and anoint him  and sanctify him,  and  so  he must  act as priest to me.     After 

 

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 that   you  will  bring  his sons  near and  you must clothe them with robes.   And  you  must  anoint them  just  as you anointed their father,  and so  they must  act as  priest to me, and  their anointing  must  serve  continually for them as  a  priesthood  to  time indefinite  during  their generations."    And Moses  proceeded  to  do according  to  all God had commanded him.    He  did just so.     Accordingly   it  came about  that in  the  1st  month,  in the 2nd year, on  the  1st  day  of  the month,  the tabernacle was set up.     When Moses proceeded  to  set up  the tabernacle,  he  went  putting  its  socket pedestals down and placing   its panel frames  and  putting its bars in and  setting up its pillars.     Then  he spread  out the tent over the tabernacle  and placed the covering of the tent above upon it, just  as God had  commanded  Moses.   After that he took the Testimony and  put  into  the Ark  and placed  the poles on  the Ark  and  put the cover above the Ark.    Then  he brought the Ark into the tabernacle   and  put the  curtain of the screen  in place and  shut off   approach  to the ark of testimony, just as God had   commanded  Moses.   Next  he put the table in the tent of meeting on the side of the tabernacle to the north outside the curtain,  and he arranged  the row of bread upon it before God, just as God had commanded Moses.   Then  he placed  the lampstand   in  the tent of meeting  in  the front of the table, on the side of tabernacle  to the south.   He  then  lit up the lamps before God, just as God  commanded  Moses.      He  next  placed the golden altar in the tent of  meeting before the curtain, that  he might  make perfumed incense  smoke upon it, just as God had  commanded   Moses.    Finally  he  put the screen  of the entrance of the tabernacle to place.     And he placed  the altar  of burnt offering  at the entrance  of  the tabernacle  of  the tent of meeting,  that  he might offer up the burnt offering   and  the grain offering upon it,  just as God commanded Moses. Then he placed  the basin  between  the tent  of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.      And  Moses  and Aaron  and his sons washed their hands and  their  feet at it.     When  they went  into  the tent of meeting   and when   they went   near to the altar  they  would wash,    just   as God had commanded Moses.    Finally  he set  up the courtyard round about the tabernacle   and   the altar  and put up  the screen of the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.    And  the cloud  began to cover the tent of meeting, and  God's  glory  filled the tabernacle.    And  Moses was not able to go  to the tent of meeting,   because  the cloud  resided   over it  and   God's glory filled the tabernacle.      And   when   the  cloud lifted itself up from over the tabernacle   the  sons of Israel  would  break camp  during all their stages of journey.  However,  if the cloud   did not lift    itself up,  then  they would not break  camp  until the  day  when  it  lifted itself up.    For  God's   cloud was over  the tabernacle by day,  and a fire continued upon it by night  in the sight of  all house of Israel  during all  their  stages of  journey."    

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Leviticus 1-27

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1    And  God proceeded to call  Moses  and speak  to him out of the tent of meeting, saying -- "Speak  to the sons of Israel,  and  you  must  say to them, 'In  case  some  man of you  would  present an offering  to God  from the domestic animals, you should  present your offering from the herd  and the flock.    "'If his  offering is a burnt offering from the herd,  a male, a  sound (healthy) one, is what he should present.     At  the entrance of the tent of meeting   he should present   it  of his own free  will before God.    And  he  must  lay his hands upon  the head  of the burnt offering,   and  it must be graciously  accepted for him  to make  atonement for him.   "'Then  the  young bull must be slaughtered before God -- and  the sons of Aaron, the priests, must  present  the blood and sprinkle the blood  round  about  upon the altar, which  is at the entrance of the meeting.    And the burnt  offering  must be skinned  and cut up into its parts.     And  the sons of Aaron, the priests,  must put  fire on the altar and set wood in order on the fire.     And  the sons of Aaron, the priests,  must  set the pieces  in order  with the  head  and the suet (hard white fat of cattle, sheep and other animals to make pudding, pantry, minced meats)  over   the wood  that is on the  fire  that is  on the altar.     And  its   intestines and its shanks will be washed with water -- and  the  priest must  make  all of it smoke on the altar as a burnt offering,  an  offering made  by fire  of  a restful  odor to God.   "'If  his offering  for a  burnt offering is from the flock,  from the young rams  or the goats,  a male,   a  sound  (healthy) one  is what he will present.    And it must be slaughtered   at the side  of the altar  to the north before God, and  the sons of Aaron, the priests, must sprinkle   its blood  round about  upon the altar.   And  he must  cut  it  up into  its parts  and  its head  and suet,  and  the priest must set them in  order over  the wood that is on the fire  that is  on the altar.   And  he  will  wash  the intestines  and the shanks  with water -- and the priest must present all of it   and  make  it smoke on the altar.    It is a burnt offering, an offering   made by fire of a restful   odor to  God.    "However,  if  his offering as a burnt offering  to  God  is from the fowls,  then  he must present his offering from turtledoves or the young pigeons.    And  the priest must present it at the altar and   nip off its  head  and  make it smoke upon the altar, but  its blood must  be drained  out upon the side of the altar.     And  he must remove its crop with its feathers, and throw it beside the altar, to the east, to  the place for the fatty ashes.     And he must cleave its wings.    He  must not divide it.  Then the  priest  must make  it  smoke  on the altar  over  the wood  that is on fire.   It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire  of a restful odor to God.       2    "'Now   in case some soul  would  present  as  an offering  a grain  offering to God, his offering should prove  to  be fine flour -- and  he  must pour oil over it and  put frankincense (fragrant resin used for incense and perfume) upon it.  And  he must  bring  it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and  the priest must grasp from  it  his handful  of  its fine flour  and  its oil along  with  all its frankincense -- and  he must make  it smoke   as a remembrancer of it  upon the 

  

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   altar, as  an offering  made  by fire  of a  restful odor to  God.   And what is left of  the grain  offering  belongs  to Aaron and his sons,  as  something  most holy  from God's offerings  made by fire.    "'And  in case  you would present as an offering a grain offering  in  the way of something  baked in the oven,  it should  be of fine flour, unfermented ring shaped cakes  moistened   with oil or unfermented  wafers smeared  with oil.    "'And   if  your offering is a grain offering from  off the griddle,  it  should prove  to  be of fine flour moistened  with oil, unfermented.    There  should   be  a breaking of  it up into pieces, and you must put oil upon it.   It is  a grain offering.  "And  if your offering is a grain offering  out of the deep-fat kettle, it   should  be made of fine flour with oil. And  you must bring the grain offering that was made of these to God, and it must be presented to the priest and  he must bring it near to the altar.   And  the priest must lift off some  of the grain offering as a remembrancer  of it  and must make  it smoke on the altar, as  an offering  made by fire of a restful odor to God.   And what  is left of the grain  offering  belongs to Aaron and his sons, as something  most  holy of God's offering by fire.     "'No grain offering that you  will present   to God  should be made a leavened thing, because  you must make no sourdough  and no honey at  all smoke  as  an offering made by fire to God.     "'As  an offering  of the 1st fruits,  you  will  present them  to God,  and they  must not come   up onto   the altar for a restful odor.   "'And  every offering  of your grain offering  you  will season  with salt, and you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God  to  be missing upon your grain offering.     Along  with  every  offering  of  yours  you will present salt.   "'And  if  you  would  present  the grain offering  of the 1st ripe fruits to God, you should  present  green ears  roasted with fire, the  grits  of new grain, as the grain offering  of your 1st ripe fruits.    And  you must put oil upon it and place frankincense  upon it.    It is grain offering.    And the priest  must  make the remembrancer of  it  smoke, that is, some of its grits and oil, along with all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to   God.           3    "'And if his offering  is  a communion sacrifice, if   he is presenting it from the herd, whether a  male or a female, a  sound (healthy) one  is   what he will present before God.    And  he  must   lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and it must be slaughtered at the entrance of the tent  of  meeting, and Aaron's sons,  the priests,  must sprinkle  the blood round about upon the altar.   And he must present   some of the communion  sacrifice as an offering  made by fire to God, namely, the fat that covers intestines, even all the fat that is over the intestines, and the 2 kidneys and  the fat that is upon them, the  same  as that  is upon the loins.    And  as for  the appendage upon the liver, he  will remove it along with the kidneys.    And  Aaron's sons  must make it smoke on the altar, upon the burnt offering  that is over the wood   that is on the fire, as  an offering made by fire of a restful odor to God.    "'And  if his offering is from   the  flock  for a communion sacrifice to God, a  male or a  female, a  sound (healthy)  one is what he will 

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      present.    If   he is  presenting  a young  ram as  his offering,  then  he must present  it before God.      And  he  must  lay his hand upon the head of his offering and   it must  be slaughtered  before the tent of meeting -- and Aaron's sons  must sprinkle  its blood  round about upon the altar.  And from the communion sacrifice   he  must  present its fat as  an offering made by fire to God.    The   entire fatty  tail  is what he  will remove near the backbone, and the fat that covers the intestines,  even all the fat that is upon the intestines, and the 2 kidneys and the fat that is upon them,  the  same  as that upon the loins. And  as for the appendage  upon the liver,   he  will  remove  it along with the kidneys.     And  the  priest  must make  it smoke  on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to God.    "'And  if  his offering is a goat, then  he must present it before God.     And  he  must  lay his hand  upon its head, and  it must be slaughtered  before  the  tent of meeting  -- and  Aaron's sons  must sprinkle  its blood round about upon the altar.    And  from  it  he must present as his offering, as an offering made by fire to  God, the  fat that covers the intestines  and even all the fat that is upon the intestines, and the 2 kidneys and the fat that is upon them,  the  same  as that upon the loins.   And  as for the appendage upon the liver,  he  will  remove it along with the kidneys.   And the priest  must make them smoke upon the altar as food, an  offering  made by fire for a  restful odor.    All  the fat belongs to God.    "'It  is a statute (regulation) to  time indefinite for your generations, in all  your dwelling  places  -- You must  must  not eat any fat or any blood at all.'"        4   And  God  went on to speak  to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons of Israel, saying,  'In  case a soul sins  by mistake in any of the things  that God  commands  should not be done,  and he actually does one of them --  "'If the priest, the anointed one (religious officer), sins  so  as to bring guiltiness upon the people, then he must present  for his  sin  that he has  committed  a  sound (healthy)  young  bull to God as a sin offering.    And  he must  bring the bull  to the entrance of the tent of meeting before God   and must  lay  his  hand upon the bull's head,  and  he must slaughter  the  bull before  God.    And  the priest, the anointed one, must take some  of the bull's blood and bring it into  the tent of meeting.  and the priest  must  dip  his finger  in the blood  and spatter some of the blood 7 times before God  in front  of the curtain of the holy place.   And the priest  must put some  of the blood  upon the horns  of the altar of perfumed incense before God,  which  is in  the tent of meeting,  and  all the rest of the bull's blood  he will  pour  at  the base of the  altar  of burnt offering, which  is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.      "'As  for all the fat of the bull of the sin offering, he will  lift up from it   the fat that covers over the intestines, even  all the fat that is over the intestines,  and the 2 kidneys  and  the fat that is upon them, the same  as that upon the loins.    And  as  for the appendage upon the liver, he will  remove  it along with the kidneys.     It  will  be the  same as what is lifted up of  a bull of   the communion sacrifice.    And  the priest must make them smoke  upon the altar of burnt offering.     "'But  as for the skin of the bull   and all   its flesh along with  

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       its head  and  its shanks  and its intestines and its  dung (manure),  he must have  the entire bull taken  out to  the outskirts  of the camp to a clean place where  the  fatty ashes are poured out, and he must burn it upon wood in the fire. Where the fatty ashes are poured out it should be burned.  "' Now if the entire assembly of  Israel  makes  a mistake and the matter  has been hidden from the eyes of  the congregation  in that  they have done one  of all the things that God  commands should not be done  and so have  become guilty,  and  the  sin that  they have committed against  it has become known, then the congregation  must  present a young  bull for a sin offering and must bring it before the tent of meeting.     And  the  older men  of the assembly must lay their  hands upon  the bull's   head before God,  and the bull must be slaughtered before God.    "'Then the priest, the anointed one,  must bring some of the bull's   blood into the tent of meeting.     And  the priest must dip his finger into  some of the blood  and spatter  it 7 times before God  in front of the curtain.    And he  will put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar that is before God,  which  is in the tent of meeting -- and  all the  rest of the blood  he  will pour  at the  base of the altar of burnt offering, which  is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.     And he will lift  up all  its fat from it, and  he must  make  it smoke on the altar.    And he must  do to the bull  just as  he did to the other bull  of the sin offering.   That   is the  way he  will do to it -- and the  priest  must  make  an atonement for them, and  so  it must be forgiven   them.    And  he must  have  the bull taken out  to  the outskirts of the camp and  must burn it,  just  as  he  burned  the 1st bull.    It  is  an  sin offering for the congregation.   "'When a  chieftain  sins  and  he does commit unintentionally   one of all the things  that  God his  Lord commands  should not be done,  and   so has become guilty,  or  his  sin  that he  has committed against  the commandment  has  been made  known to him,  then  he must bring as his offering  a  male kid  of the goats,  a sound (healthy)  one.   And  he  must  lay  his hand upon  the  head  of the young goat and slaughter  it in the place where the burnt offering   is   regularly  slaughtered  before  God.   It is a sin offering.     And  the priest   must  take some of the blood of the sin offering   with  his finger  and put it upon  the  horns of  the altar of burnt offering, and  he  will pour  the rest of its blood  at the  base of the altar of burnt offering.     And  he will  make all its  fat smoke  on the altar  like the fat of the communion sacrifice  -- and the priest must  make  an atonement for him for  his sin, and so  it  must  be forgiven  him.    ""And   if  any  soul of the people of the  land  sins unintentionally  by  his doing  one of  the things that God  commands should  not be done and  he does become guilty,  or  his sin that  he  has committed  has been made known to him,   then he must bring as his  offering  a female  kid of the goats,  a sound (healthy) one, for  his  sin that he has committed.   And  he  must  lay his  hand  upon  the head of the sin offering  and slaughter  the  sin offering  in the same place  as the burnt offering.     And  the priest  must  take some  of  its blood  with his finger and put it  upon   the horns   of the altar of  

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         burnt offering  and  he will pour  all  the rest of its  blood  at the base of the altar.    And  he will remove  all its fat,  just  as the  fat was removed from off the communion  sacrifice -- and  the priest must  make  it smoke  on the altar as a  restful  odor to  God -- and  the priest  must make an atonement for him, and so  it must  be forgiven him.   "'But  if  he would  bring  a lamb  as his offering  for  a sin offering,  a  sound  (healthy)  female lamb  is what he should bring.      And he must  lay  his hand upon  the head of the sin offering and slaughter  it  as a sin offering  in the  place where the burnt offering  is regularly slaughtered.   And  the  priest  must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger  and put it  upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he will pour all the rest of its blood  at the base of the altar.    And  he  will remove all   its  fat  the same  as the fat of the young ram  of  the communion sacrifice is regularly removed, and the priest  must  make them  smoke on the altar upon  the  God's  offering made  by fire,  and the  priest must  make an atonement for him  for  his sin  that he has committed, and so it must be forgiven for him.      5    "'Now   in  case a  soul  sins  in that  he has heard public cursing  (or a wrong) and  he  is  a witness  or  he has seen it  or  has come  to  know of it,   if  he does not report  it, then  he  must  answer  for this (his) error.      "'Or  when a   soul  touches   some unclean thing, whether  the   dead body of an  unclean wild beast or  the dead  body of  an  unclean  domestic animal   or  dead body  of an   unclean  swarming creatures, although it has been hidden from him,  still  he is unclean  and  has become guilty.    Or in   case he touches   the uncleanness  of  a man  as respects  to  any uncleanness  of  his  with  which  he may become unclean,  although  it had been  hidden  from  him, and  yet  he  himself  has come to know it, then he has become guilty.    "'Or  in case  a soul  swears to the  extent  of speaking thoughtlessly  with  his  lips  to do evil  or  to  do  good  as respects  anything at all  that  the man might speak thoughtlessly in a sworn statement, although it had been hidden from him, and  yet he himself has come to know it, then he has  become guilty  as respects to one of these things.   "'And  it must occur that in  case he becomes  guilty as  respects  to one of these things, then  he must confess  in  what way he has sinned.   And  he  must  bring his guilty offering (offering is a giving to God, sometimes sacrificing an animal for restoring covenant with God, and beg for forgiveness) to God  for  his  sin that  he has committed, namely, a  female  from the flock, a  female  lamb or a  female kid of the goats, for  a sin offering (offering to God for forgiveness of sin) and the priest  must  make an atonement (religious amends)  for  him for his sin.    "'If, though, he cannot afford enough  for a sheep,  then  he  must  bring as his guilt offering  for  the sin that he has committed  2  turtledoves  or  2 pigeons to God, one  for a sin offering  and  one for a burnt offering.    And he must bring them to the priest, who  must present   1st  the one for the sin offering, and nip off  its head  at the front of its neck,  but  he  should  not sever it.   And  he must spatter  some  of the  blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, but the  remainder  of the blood  will  be drained  out at  the base of the altar.    It is a sin offering.    And  the  other   one he will handle as a burnt offering according to the regular procedure,  

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  and   the priest  must  make an atonement (begging for forgiveness from God) for  him  for his sin that he has committed, and  so it must be forgiven  him.   "'Now  if  he does not have  the means  for 2 turtledoves  or  2 young pigeons, then  he must  bring  as  his offering  for the  sin  he has committed   the 10th of ephah (1 ephah is 22 liter, so 1/10 of it is 2.2 liter) of fine flour for a sin offering.   He must not  put oil upon it, and he must  not place frankincense upon it, for it is a sin offering.     And he  must bring it to the priest, and  the priest must grasp from it  his handful  as  a remembrancer of it   and must  make it  smoke on the altar upon God's offerings  made by fire.   It  is  a sin offering.   And  the priest  must  make an  atonement  for him  for his  sin  that he has committed,   any one of  these sins, and  so it must be forgiven  him  -- and  it must become priest's  the  same as grain offering'"   And  God continued   to  speak to Moses, saying --  "In  case a soul (person) behaves unfaithfully in  that he actually sins by mistake  against  holy things of God,  then  he must  bring as his guilt offering to God -- a   sound (healthy)  ram from the flock, according  to the estimated  value  in silver shekels,  by  the shekel of the holy place, as a guilt offering.    And  he will  make compensation  for the  sin  he has committed against the holy place  and  he will  add to it a  5th  of it, and  he must give it to the priest,  that  the priest  may  make  an atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and so it must be forgiven  him.   "And  if  a soul  sins in that he  does  do one  of  all the  things that  God commands  should not be done, although he did not know it,  yet  he has become guilty  and  must answer for his error.    And  he must  bring a   sound (healthy) ram  from the flock according  to the  estimated value,  for a guilt offering, to the priest -- and the priest  must  make of  atonement  for him  for his mistake  that he committed unintentionally, although he himself did not know it,   and so it must be forgiven him.    It is a guilt offering.    He  has positively become guilty against God."       6  And  God went  on to speak to Moses, saying --  "In case a soul   sins  in  that  he does behave  unfaithfully  toward God  and  does  deceive his associate  (co-worker)  about  something  in his charge  or  a deposit  in hand, or  a robbery  or  he does  defraud (rob, cheat) his associate, or  he does  find something  lost  and  is  actually  deceptive  about it  and  does  swear falsely over any of all the things  that  the man might do  to sin by them, then  it must occur that  in case  he  sins and  indeed become guilty, he must return the robbed thing   which he has robbed  or  the extorted (taken by force)  thing which  he has  taken  by  fraud (deceit)  or  the thing  in  his charge  or the  thing  lost that he has found, or  anything  at all  over which he might swear falsely,  and  he must make compensation for  it  in  its full amount, and  he will add to it a 5th (1/5) of it.   To  the one  whose it is he will give it on the day his guilt is proved.    And  as his guilt offering  he will  bring to God a  sound (healthy) ram  from  the flock  according  to the estimated value, for a guilt offering,  to the priest.     And the priest must make an atonement for him before God,  and  so  it must  be forgiven  him  regarding  any  of all  the things that  he might  do  resulting  in  guiltiness by it."    And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying --  "Command  Aaron   and his 

    

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   sons, saying,  'This  is  the law  of  the burnt offering.  The  burnt  offering  will be  on  the  hearth  upon  the altar  all  night  long  until the morning, and  the fire of  the altar will be kindled  in  it.    And   the  priest  must  clothe himself  with  his  official  dress of linen,  and  he  will  put the linen drawers on over his flesh.    Then he must  lift  up the  fatty  ashes of  the burnt offering that  the fire  regularly consumes upon the altar,  and  he must  place them beside the altar.    And he must  strip off  his garments  and put on other garments, and he must take the fatty ashes  out to  a clean place outside the camp.   And  the fire  on  the altar  will  be kept  burning on it.   It  must not go out.   And  the  priest must  burn wood  on it morning by morning, and set the  burnt  offering  in  order over it, and  he  must  make the fatty  pieces of the communion  sacrifices  smoke  over it.   Fire  will  be  kept  constantly  burning  on the altar.    It  must not go out.   "'Now this is the law of the grain offering -- You sons of Aaron, present  it before God  in front of the altar.    And one of  them  must lift up  by his handful  some  of the fine flour of the grain offering and  some of its oil  and  all  the frankincense that is upon the grain offering, and  he must make it smoke upon the altar as a restful odor for a remembrancer of  it to God.   And  what is left of it  Aaron  and  his sons will eat.  It will  be eaten as unfermented cakes  in a holy place.   They will eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.    It  should not be baked with anything leavened.   I  have given it as their share out of my  offerings made by fire.   It  is  something most holy, like the sin offering  and like the guilt offering.   Every  male among  the sons of Aaron  will eat it.    It  is an allowance  to time indefinite throughout  your generations  from God's offerings  made by fire.  Everything  that may  touch them will become holy."   And God went on speaking to Moses, saying -- "This  is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they will  present  to God  on the day of  his being anointed-- 10th (1/10)  of ephah (1 ephah is 22 liter 1/10 ephah = 2.2 liter =9 cups)  of fine flour as a grain offering constantly, 1/2 of it  in  the morning and 1/2 of it in the evening.    It  will be made with oil upon a  griddle.    You will bring it well mixed.   You will  present  the pastries of the  grain offering in pieces  as a restful odor to God.   And the priest, the one  anointed  in place of him  from  among his sons, will make it.    It  is a regulation to time indefinite.    As  a whole  offering  it will  be made to smoke to God.   And every  grain  offering  of a priest should prove  to be  a  whole offering.  It must not be eaten."    And God spoke further  to Moses, saying --  "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This  is  the law  of the sin offering -- In   the  place where the burnt offering  is regularly slaughtered  the sin offering   will be slaughtered  before God.  It  is a most holy thing.   The priest who offers it  for sin will eat it-- in a holy place it will be eaten in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.   Everything  that may touch its flesh will become holy, and  when anyone  spatters  some of  its blood upon the garment,  you will wash  what  he spatters  blood upon  in a holy place.  And  the earthenware vessel  in  which  it may  be boiled  is to be shattered.    But  if it  was boiled in a copper vessel, then  it  must be scoured and rinsed with water.    

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"Every  male  among  the  priests  will eat it.  It  is something most holy. However, no  sin offering of which some of  the blood  will be brought into the tent of meeting  to make atonement in  the holy place  must be eaten.   It  is to be burned with fire.      7  "'And   this  is the law of the guilt offering.   It  is something most holy.     In  the place  where  they  regularly slaughter the burnt offering   they  will  slaughter the guilt offering,  and   its  blood one will sprinkle round about upon the altar.    As  for  its fat,  he  will present of it  the fatty tail  and the fat that covers the intestines, and the 2 kidneys and the fat that  is upon them   the same  as that  upon the loins.   And   as for the appendage  upon  the liver, he  will remove it along with the kidneys.     And the priest must make them  smoke on  the altar  as an offering  made by fire to God.   It  is  a guilt offering.     Every  male among the priests will eat it.  In a holy place  it will be eaten.  It  is  something  most holy.   Like  the sin offering, so  is the guilt offering.   There   is one law for them.   The priest  who will make atonement  with it,  his   it will become.    "'As for the priest who presents the burnt offering  of  any man,  the skin   of  the burnt  offering that he has presented  to the priest will become his.    "'And  every grain offering that may be  baked  in the oven and  every  one made  in the  deep fat kettle  and  upon the griddle  belongs  to the  priest who presents it.  It will become his.    But every grain offering   that is moistened with oil or dry will   come  to be for all of Aaron's sons, for  the  one the same as for the other.    "'Now  this  is the law of the communion sacrifice that  anyone will present to God -- If he would present it  in expression of thanksgiving, then  he  must present  along  with the sacrifice of thanksgiving  unfermented ring-shaped cakes  moistened  with oil, and unfermented wafers  smeared  with oil  and  well- mixed  fine flour as ring shaped  cakes moistened  with oil.    Along  with the ring shaped cakes of leavened bread  he will present  his  offering  together with the thanksgiving sacrifice  of his communion sacrifices.    And out of it  he must present one of each offering  as  a sacred portion to God, as  for  the priest who sprinkles the blood of the communion sacrifices, it will  become his.    And the flesh of the thanksgiving  sacrifice  of his communion sacrifices  is to be eaten on the day of his offering.   He  must  not save  up any of it until morning.    "'And  if the sacrifice  of  his offering  is  a vow  or a voluntary offering,  it  is  to  be eaten on the  day  of his presenting his sacrifice, and  on the next day what is left of it also may be eaten.     But  what  is left  of the flesh of the sacrifice on the 3rd day is  to be burned with fire.   However, if any of the flesh of his communion sacrifice should at all be eaten on the 3rd day, the  one presenting  it will not be accepted  with approval.   It  will  not be  put to his account.   It will become a foul thing, and  the soul that eats some  of it  will answer for his error.   And  the  flesh  that  may  touch  anything  unclean  is not to be eaten.  It  is to be burned with fire.     As  for the flesh,  everybody  clean may eat the flesh.   "'And   the soul  who eats the flesh of the communion sacrifice,  

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  which  is for God, while  his uncleanness  is upon him, that soul must be cut off from  his people.   And  in case  a  soul touches anything unclean, the uncleanness of  a  man or  an unclean beast or  any unclean loathsome (hateful) thing, and  actually  eats  some of the flesh of the communion sacrifice, which is for God,  that  soul  must  be cut off  from his people.'"   And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying --  "Speak  to  the sons of Israel, saying,  'You  must not eat  any fat of  a bull  or a young ram or a goat.    Now  the fat  of a body already dead  and  the fat of an animal  torn to pieces  may be used for anything  else  you could think of, but  you must not eat it at all.   For anyone eating  fat from the  beast from  which he present  it as an offering made by fire to God, the  soul  that  eats  must be cut off  from his people.    "'And you must not  eat any  blood  in any places where you  dwell, whether that of fowl or that of beast.     Any  soul who  eats  any blood, that soul must be cut off from his people.'"    And  God  went on to speak to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to  sons of Israel, 'He  who  presents  his  communion sacrifice  to God will bring his offering  to  God from  his communion sacrifice.   His  hands  will  bring as God's offerings  made by fire  the fat  upon the breast.   He  will bring  it with the breast  to wave  it to and fro  as a wave offering  before God.   And  the priest  must  make  the fat smoke upon the altar, but  the breast must become Aaron's and his sons'.      "'And  you will give the  right leg  as a sacred portion to the  priest  from  your  communion sacrifices.    That  one of Aaron's sons who presents  the blood  of the communion  sacrifices and the fat, the right leg will become his as a portion.    For  the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the  sacred portion  I do  take from the sons of Israel  from their communion sacrifices, and  I shall give them to Aaron the priest and his sons, as a regulation to time indefinite, from the sons of Israel.    "'This was the priestly share of Aaron and the priestly share  of  his sons from  God's offerings made by fire, on the  day  that he presented them to act as priests to God, just as God had commanded  to give  it to them  on the day of his anointing them from among the sons of Israel.     It   is a statute to time indefinite for their generations.'"     This is the law concerning the burnt offering, the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering   and the installation sacrifice and the communion sacrifice, just as God had commanded Moses in Mount Sinai  in the day  of his commanding the sons of   Israel to present their offerings to God  in the wilderness of Sinai.         8    And  God  proceeded  to  speak to Moses, saying -- "Take  Aaron and  his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering   and   the 2 rams and the basket of unfermented cakes, and  make all the assembly congregate at  the entrance of the tent of meeting."     Then   Moses  did  just as God had commanded him, and  the assembly  congregated at  the entrance of the tent of meeting.    Moses now  said  to the  assembly -- "This is the  

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   thing  that God has given  command  to do."   So  Moses brought Aaron and his sons  near and washed them with water.    After  that he put the  robe upon him and girded him with the sash and  clothed him with  the sleeveless coat   and  put  the ephod  upon him  and  girded him  with the girdle of the ephod, and  bound it closely to him with it.     Next he placed the breastpiece upon him and put in the breastpiece  the Urim and  the Thummim ("guilt & innocent" plates worn by Hebrew priests).    Then  he placed the turban upon his head and placed  upon  the turban  at the forefront of it the shining plate of gold, the holy sign  of dedication, just as God had commanded Moses.   Moses now took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and sanctify him.    After  that  he spattered  some of it 7 times upon  the altar, and  anointed  the altar  and all  its utensils  and the basin and its stand so as to sanctify them.     Finally  he poured  some of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head  and  anointed him  so as to sanctify him.    Moses then brought Aaron's sons  near and clothed them  with robes and girded them with sashes and  wrapped the headgear upon them,  just  as God had  commnaded  Moses.   Then  he led up  the bull of the sin offering  and Aaron and his sons laid their hands  upon the head of the  bull of the sin offering.     And  Moses  proceeded to slaughter it  and  take the blood and put it with his finger upon the horns of the altar round about and  purify the altar from sin, but  the rest of the blood he poured  at the base of the altar, that he might  sanctify  it to make atonement upon it.     After  that  he took all  the fat that was upon the intestines, and the appendage of the liver, and the 2 kidneys and their fat    and Moses made them smoke upon the altar.     And  he had the bull  and its skin  and its flesh  and  its dung  burned with fire outside the camp, just as God had   commanded  Moses.      He   now brought  the ram of the burnt offering near, and Aaron  and  his sons then  laid their  hands upon the head of the ram.    After  that Moses slaughtered it  and sprinkled the blood round about upon the altar.      And   he cut up the ram into the pieces, and  Moses proceeded to make the head and the pieces and the suet smoke.     And   the intestines and the shanks   he washed with water, and  Moses then made the entire ram smoke upon the altar.     It  was  a burnt offering for  a restful odor.      It was an offering  made by  fire to God,  just as God had  commanded Moses.    Then he brought  the 2nd ram,  the ram  of the installation, near,  and  Aaron and his sons  laid their hands upon the ram's head.    After  that Moses slaughtered it   and took some of its blood and put it upon the Aaron's right  and upon the thumb  of  his right hand  and upon the big  toe of his right foot.   Next Moses brought  Aaron's sons near   and put some of the blood upon the lobe of their right ear  and  upon the thumb  of their right hand, and  upon the big toe of their right foot -- but Moses sprinkled the rest of the blood round about upon the altar.     Then   he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat was upon the intestines, and   the appendage of the liver   and   the 2 kidneys and their fat and the right leg.     And  out of the basket of unfermented  cakes that was before God he took one unfermented

 

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   ring shaped cake  and  one ring shaped  cake of oiled bread, and one wafer.   He  then placed  them  upon the fatty  pieces and the right leg.    After  that he put   all of them   upon the palms of  Aaron and the palms of his sons, and began to  wave them  to and fro   as a wave offering before God.   Then Moses took  them off their palms   and made  them smoke upon the altar on top of the burnt offering.    They  were  an  installation  sacrifice  for  a restful odor.    It was  an offering   made by fire to God.   And Moses proceeded to take the breast and to wave it to and fro  as a wave offering before God. From the installation ram  it became the portion  for Moses, just as God had  commanded  Moses.    After   that Moses  took some of the anointing oil   and some of the blood that  was  upon the  altar and spattered  it upon Aaron and his garments  and  upon his sons  and  the  garments of  his sons with him.   Thus  he sanctified  Aaron  and  his garments  and his sons and the garments of his sons with him.    Then Moses said  to Aaron  and his sons --  "Boil  the flesh   at the   entrance  of the  tent  of meeting  and  there is where you will eat it  and  the  bread that  is in  the installation basket,  just  as I was given the   command,  saying,   'Aaron  and  his  sons will eat it.'     And  what is left over of the flesh  and  the bread  you will burn with fire.    And you must  not go out from  the entrance  of the tent  of meeting  for 7 days, until  the day of fulfilling the days  of your installation, because  it will take 7 days to  fill your hand with power.     Just   as   it has been  done this day, God   has commanded  to be done so  as to make  atonement for you.   And you   will  stay at  the entrance of the tent of meeting  day and  night for 7 days, and  you must  keep the obligatory watch of God,   that   you  may not die -- for so   I have been  commanded."      And  Aaron   and  his sons proceeded to   do all things that God had commanded by means of Moses.      9   And  it  came  about  on  the 8th day  that  Moses   called  Aaron and his sons   and   the older men of Israel.   Then he said to Aaron -- "Take   for yourself   a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram   for a burnt offering,  sound (healthy) ones, and present  them before God.    But   to  the sons  of  Israel you will speak, saying,   'Take  a male goat for a  sin offering, and  a calf and  a young ram, each  a year old,  sound (healthy) ones, for a burnt offering,   and  a bull and a  ram for communion sacrifices to sacrifice  them before God, and  a grain offering moistened  with oil, because today   is when God will certainly appear to you.'"      Accordingly they took what Moses  had commanded  before tent of meeting.    Then the whole assembly  came near  and stood  before God.    And  Moses  went on to say -- "This  is the thing  that  God  has  commanded  you  should do,  that  the glory of God  may  appear to you"     Then  Moses said to Aaron -- "Go  near to the altar  and  render up  your sin offering   and  your burnt offering,  and make atonement  in  your own behalf  and   in behalf of your house -- and render up the offering   of the people   and   make atonement   in their behalf, just as God has   commanded."    Aaron   immediately   went near to the altar and slaughtered   the calf of the sin offering  that was for him.   Then Aaron's sons presented  the blood  to him  and  he dipped  his  finger in  the  

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  blood   and  put it  upon the horns of the altar, and  the rest of  the blood he poured  at  the base of the altar.   And  he made  the fat and the kidneys and the appendage  of the liver  from the sin offering  smoke upon the altar, just as God had  commanded   Moses.  And  he burned  the flesh  and the skin outside the camp.     Then  he  slaughtered  the burnt offering and Aaron's sons handed  him  the blood and he sprinkled it round about upon the altar.    And they  handed him  the burnt offering  in its pieces  and the head, and he proceeded  to make them smoke upon the altar.    Further, he washed the intestines   and the shanks, and  made  them smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar.   He now went presenting the offering of the people and took the goat of  the sin  offering  that  was  for  the people  and slaughtered it and made an offering  for sin with it  as with  the 1st.     Then  he presented  the burnt offering and   handled  it  according to the regular procedure.   He next presented  the grain  offering  and filled  his hand  with some of it and made it smoke  upon the altar,  apart  from the burnt  offering of the morning.     After that he slaughtered the bull and the ram of the communion sacrifice that was for the people.   Then Aaron's sons handed  him the blood and he sprinkled it round about upon the altar.   As   for  the fatty  pieces of the bull and the fat tail of the ram and  the  fat covering  and  the kidneys and  the appendage of the liver,  they  now  placed the  fatty  pieces  upon the breasts, after  which he made the  fatty pieces  smoke upon the altar.    But   the breast  and the right leg   Aaron  waved  to  and fro  as a wave offering before God,  just  as Moses had commanded.   Then  Aaron  raised  his  hands toward the people and blessed them  and came  down from  rendering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the communion sacrifices.   Finally  Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting and came out and  blessed the people.   Then God's glory appeared  to  all the people, and  fire came  out from before God  and began consuming  the burnt  offering  and the  fatty pieces  upon the altar.    When  all the people  got to see it,  they broke out into shouting and went falling upon their faces.        10    Later   on Aaron's sons   Nadab and Abihu took up and brought  each one his fire holder and put fire  in them  and placed  incense upon it,  and  they  began  offering  before God  illegitimate fire,  which  he had not prescribed for them.  At this   a fire came  out  from before  God and consumed them, so  they died before God.    Then  Moses said to Aaron -- "This is what God  has spoken, saying, 'Among those near  to me  let  me be sanctified,  and  before  the  face  of  all the people let me be glorified.'"    And Aaron kept silent.     So  Moses  called Mishael and Elzapham, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said to them -- "Come near,  carry your  brothers from  in front  of  the holy  place  to  outside the camp."   They  accordingly came  near  and  carried  them  in  their robes  to  outside the camp, just as Moses had spoken. 

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 Subsequently Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other sons -- "Do not let your heads go ungroomed, and you must not tear your garments -- that you may not die and that he may not become indignant against all the assembly -- but your brothers of the whole house of Israel will do the weeping over the burning, which God has made burn. And from the entrance of the tent of meeting you must not go out for fear you may die, because God's anointing oil is upon you."    So they did according to Moses' word.    And God proceeded to speak to Aaron, saying --"Do not drink wine or intoxicating liquor, you and your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, that you may not die.   It is a statute to time indefinite for your generations, both in order to make a distinction between the holy thing and the profane and between the unclean and the clean, and in order to teach the sons of Israel all the regulations that God has spoken to them by means of Moses."      Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left -- "Take the grain offering that was left over from God's offerings made by fire and eat it unfermented near the altar, because it is something most holy.    And you must eat it in a holy place, because it is your allowance and the allowance of your sons from God's offerings made by fire, for so I have been commanded.   And you will eat the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the sacred portion in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, because they have been given as your allowance and the allowance of your sons from the communion sacrifices of the sons of Israel.   They will bring the leg of the sacred portion and the breast of the wave offering along with the offerings made by fire, of the fatty pieces. in order to wave the wave offering to and fro before God, and it must serve as an allowance to time indefinite for you and your sons with you, just as God has commanded."    And Moses searched thoroughly for the goat of the sin offering, and, look! it had been burned up.    So he grew indignant at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons that were left, saying --"Why did you not eat the sin offering in the place that is holy since it is something most holy and he has given it to you that you may answer for the error of the assembly so as to make atonement for them before God?     Look! Its blood has not been brought into the holy place within. You should have eaten it without fail in the holy place, just as I had been commanded." At this Aaron spoke to Moses -- "Look! Today they have presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before God, while such things as these began to befall me -- and had I eaten the sin offering today, would it prove satisfactory in God's eyes?" When Moses got to hear that, then it proved satisfactory in his eyes.       11   And God proceeded to speak to Moses and Aaron saying to them --""Speak to the sons of Israel, saying -- 'This is the living creature that you may eat of all the beasts that you may eat of all the beasts that are upon the earth -- Every creature that splits the hoof and forms a cleft in the hoofs and chews the cud (partly digested food) among the beasts, that is what you may eat. "'Only this is what you must not eat among the chewers of the      

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 cud  and  the splitters  of the hoof --  the camel,  because it is  a chewer  of the cud  but is no splitter  of the hoof.   It is unclean for you.    Also  the rock badger, because  it is  a chewer of the  cud  but  does  not split the hoof.  It   is unclean for you.     Also  the hare, because  it  is  a chewer  of the cud   but  it does not  have the hoof  split.  It is unclean for you.     Also  the pig, because it is a splitter of the hoof and  a former  of a cleft  in the  hoof, but   it   itself does not chew the cud.   It  is unclean for you.     You  must  not  eat any of their flesh, and  you  must not touch their dead body.   They  are unclean for you.    "'This  is  what  you  may  eat   of everything  that is in the  waters -- Everything that  has  fins  and  scales in the waters, in the seas  and  in the torrents, those you may eat.     And  everything  in  the seas  and  the torrents  that has no fins and scales, out  of every swarming  creature  of  the waters  and  out of every living soul  that  is in the waters, they  are  a loathsome thing for you.     Yes, they   will become a loathsome thing to you.    You  must not eat any of their flesh, and  you  are  to loathe their dead body.   Everything  in the waters that has no fins and scales   is a loathsome thing to you.   "'And  these are what you will  loathe  among the flying creatures.     They should  not be eaten.  They are a loathsome thing -- the eagle  and  the osprey  and the black vulture   and the red kite  and the black kite according to its kind, and  every  raven according to its kind, and  the ostrich and  the owl  and the gull  and  the falcon  according to its kind, and  the  little owl  and the cormorant  and  the long-eared owl  and  the swan  and the pelican  and the vulture,   and the stork, the heron according to its kind, and   the hoopoe and the bat.   Every  winged  swarming creature that goes on all  4s  is a loathsome  thing to you.   '''Only this  is what you may eat  of all  the winged  swarming  creatures that  go upon all  4s, those that have leaper legs  above their feet  with  which  to  leap  upon the earth.    These  are the ones  of  them you  may  eat  of  the migratory  locust according to its kind, and  the edible  locust  after  its kind,  and  the  cricket according to its kind, and the  grasshopper according  to its kind.    And  every other winged swarming (grouping)  creature  with 4 legs  is a loathsome  thing to you.     So by  these  you would  make yourselves unclean.   Everyone  touching  their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.    Everyone carrying any of their dead  bodies  will  wash his  garments, and  he must be  unclean  until the evening.        "'As  for any  animal  that  is  a splitter of the hoof  but is not a former  of  a cleft and  is not a chewer of the cut, they  are unclean for you.   Everyone  touching  them will be unclean.   As   for   every  creature going upon its paws among  all the living creatures that go  on all 4s,  they are unclean  to you.    Everyone   touching  their  dead  bodies  will be unclean until  the evening.   And  he  who  carries  their dead bodies will wash his garments,  and  he must  be unclean  until evening.   They   are unclean  to  you.     And  this  is what  is unclean to  you among  the swarming creatures that swarm  upon the earth -- the mole rat and  the jerboa and  the lizard according its kind,  and the gecko fanfoot and the  large lizard  and the  newt  and the  sand lizard and the chameleon.   These are  unclean to you among all   

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the   swarming creatures.   Everyone  touching  them  in their death state will be unclean until the evening.    "'Now  anything  upon  which  any  of them should  fall  in its  death   state will be unclean,  whether  it be  some wooden vessel (container) or  a garment  or  a skin  or sackcloth.    Any  vessel  of which some  use  is made  will  be put to water, and it must be unclean until the evening  and then be clean.    As  for  any earthenware  vessel  into which any of them  should fall,  anything  that is within  it will  be unclean, and  you will smash it.   Any  sort of  food  that may  be eaten  upon  which water  may come from  it will be unclean,  and  any drink  that may  be drunk  in any vessel will be unclean.   Everything  upon  which any  of their  dead bodies may fall will be unclean.   Whether  oven  or  jar stand, it  is  to be broken down.  They  are unclean, and  they  will  become unclean to you.   Only  a  spring and  a  pit of impounded  waters  will  continue clean, but anyone touching  their dead bodies will be unclean.   And  should  any of  their dead bodies fall upon any seed  of a plant  that is to be sown, it is clean.   But in case  water should be put upon  seed and  something  of their  dead bodies  had  fallen upon it, it is unclean to you.    "'Now  in case  any  beast that is yours for food should die,  he who  touches  its dead  body  will be unclean until the evening.   And  he who eats any of its dead body will wash his  garments,  and  he must  be unclean until  the evening -- and he who carries off  its dead body will wash his  garments, and he must be unclean  until the evening.   And every swarming creature (grouping)  that swarms  upon the earth  is a loathsome thing.   It must not be eaten.    As  for  any  creature  that goes upon the belly  and any creature that goes on all 4s,  or  any great number of feet  of  all the swarming creatures that  swarm upon the earth, you must not eat them, because they are a loathsome thing.   Do  not make your souls loathsome  with  any swarming creature that swarms,  and  you must  not make yourselves unclean by them and  actually get unclean by them.    For I am God your Lord, and you must sanctify  yourselves  and you  must prove yourselves holy, because I am holy.     So  you must  not make your  souls unclean by any swarming creature that moves  upon the earth.   For I am God  who  is leading you up out of the land of Egypt  to prove myself God  to you, and you  must prove yourselves holy, because I am holy.   "'This is the law about the  beast and the flying creature and  every  living  soul  that moves  about  in the waters and concerning every soul  that swarms upon the earth, in order to make a distinction between the unclean  and the clean, and between  the living  creature  that  is  eatable and the  living creature  that may not be eaten.'"       12    And  God went on to speak to Moses, saying --"Speak  to  the sons of Israel, saying,   --'In case a woman  conceives  seed and does bear  a male, she must be unclean 7 days -- as in  the days  of the impurity  when  she is menstruating she will be unclean.   And on  the 8th day  the flesh  of his foreskin will be circumcised.    For 33 days more she will stay  in the blood  of purification.    She  should  not touch any holy thing,  and  she should not  come into the holy place until  the fulfilling of the days of  her purification.   "'Now  if  she should  bear  a female,  she must then be 

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  unclean  14 days, as  during her menstruation.   For  66 days more she will stay  with the blood of purification.   Then  at the fulfilling  of the days of her purification  for a son or for a daughter  she will bring  a young ram in its 1st year for a burnt  offering  and a young pigeon  or a turtledove for a sin offering  to  the entrance  of the tent of meeting to the priest.    And  he must present it before  God  and make atonement for her, and she must be  clean from  the source of her blood.   This  is the law about her who bears either a male or a female.    But if    she cannot afford enough for a sheep, she must then take 2 turtledoves  or  2 young pigeons.  1 for  a burnt offering   and 1 for a sin offering,  and  the priest must  make atonement for her,  and she must be clean.'"        13   And  God proceeded to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying--"In case a man develops in the skin of his flesh a eruption (breakout), or a scab or a blotch and it does develop  in the skin of  his flesh  into the plague of leprosy, he must be then  brought to Aaron the priest or  to one of  his sons the priests.   And the priest must look at the plague in the skin of the  flesh.   When the hair in the plague  has turned  white  and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh,  it  is the plague of leprosy.   And  the priest must look at it,   and he must declare him unclean.    But  if the blotch  is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair has not turned white, the priest  must then quarantine the plague 7 days.    And the priest must look at him on the 7th day,  and if  in the way it looks the plague has stopped, the plague has not spread in the skin, the priest must also quarantine him another 7 days.      "'The priest must  look at him on the 7th day, the 2nd time, and  if the plague has grown dull  and the plague has not spread in the skin, the priest must also pronounce him clean.    It was a scab.   And he  must  wash his  garments  and be clean.    But if  the scab has unquestionably spread in the skin after  his appearing before the priest for the establishment of his purification, he must then appear  the 2nd time before the priest,  and the priest must take a look  --  and  if the scab has spread in the skin,  the priest must then declare him unclean.  It is leprosy.     In  case  the plague  of leprosy develops in a man, he must then be brought to the priest.    The priest must take a look and if there is a white breakout in the skin and it has turned the hair white, and the raw of the living flesh is in the breakout, it is chronic leprosy in the skin of his flesh -- and the priest must  declare him unclean.    He should not quarantine him, for he is unclean.    Now   if the leprosy unquestionably breaks out in the skin, and the  leprosy does cover  all the skin of the one with the plague from his head to his feet  to the full sight of the priest's eyes --  and the priest has looked and there  the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he must then pronounce the plague clean.    All of  it has turned white, he is clean.    But  on the day the living flesh appears in it, he will be unclean. And  the priest  must  see the living flesh, and he  must declare him  unclean.  The living flesh is  unclean.  It is  leprosy.   Or in case the living  flesh goes back and  it does change  to white, he must then come to the priest.   And  the priest must  

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    look  at him, and if the plague has been  changed to white, the priest must then  pronounce the plague clean.   He is clean.    "As for the flesh, in case a boil develops  in  its skin and it does get healed, and  in the  place of the boil a white  eruption  has developed  or a reddish-white blotch, he must then show himself to the priest.   And the priest must look, and  if  its appearance is lower than the skin  and  its hair  has turned white, the priest must then declare him unclean.   It  is the plague of leprosy.   It  has broken out in the boil.   But if the priest looks  at it,  and, there now,  there is no  white hair in it and  it is not deeper than the skin and it is dull, the  priest must then quarantine him  7 days.   And   if it unmistakably spreads in the skin, the priest must then declare him unclean.  It is a plague. But if in its place the blotch should stand, it  has not spread,  it is the inflammation of the boil -- and  the priest must  pronounce him clean.   "Or  in case there comes to be  a scar  in the skin of the flesh from the fire,  and  the raw flesh of the scar does become a reddish-white blotch or a white one, the  priest  must then look at it, and if the hair has been changed  white in the blotch and  its appearance is deeper  than the skin,  it is leprosy.     It  has broken  out in the scar, and  the priest must declare him unclean.   It  is  the plague of leprosy.    But  if the priest looks  at it, and, there now,  there  is no  white hair in the blotch and  it is not lower than skin and it is dull, the priest  must  then quarantine him 7 days.   And  the priest must look at him on the 7th day.   If it unmistakably spreads  in the skin, the priest must  then declare  him unclean.    It is the plague of leprosy.    But  if the blotch stands in its place, it  has not spread  in the skin and it is dull, it is an eruption (breakout)  of  the scar -- and  the priest must  pronounce him clean, because  it  is an inflammation of the scar.   "As for a man or a woman, in case  a plague develops in such one on the head or on the chin,  the  priest must then  see  the plague -- and  if  its appearance  is deeper  than the skin, and the hair is yellow  and scarce  in it,  the priest  must then declare such one unclean.   It is an abnormal falling off of hair.    It  is leprosy  of the  head or of the chin.     But  in case the priest  sees the plague of abnormal falling off of hair, and, look!  i ts  appearance  is not deeper  than  the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest must then  quarantine  the plague of abnormal falling off of hair 7 days.   And the  priest must look  at the plague on the 7th day -- and  if the abnormal falling  off of hair has not spread, and no yellow hair  has developed in it  and  the appearance of the abnormal falling off of hair is not deeper than the skin,  he must then  have himself shaved, but he will not have the abnormal falling off of hair shaved -- and the priest must quarantine the abnormal falling off of hair 7 days again.   "And the priest must look at the abnormal falling off of hair on the 7th day -- and if the abnormal falling off of hair  has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest must then pronounce him clean, and he must wash his garments  and be clean.    But  if the abnormal falling off  of hair unmistakably  spreads  in the skin  after the establishment of his purification, the  priest  must  then see him -- and if the abnormal falling off of hair has spread in the skin, the      

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   priest   need not make examination  for yellow hair--he is unclean.   But if in its look the abnormal falling off of hair has stood and  black hair has grown in it, the abnormal falling off of hair has been healed.    He is clean, and the priest must pronounce him clean.    "As for a man or a woman, in case blotches develop in the skin of their flesh, white blotches,  the priest then must take a look --  and if the blotches in the skin of their flesh are dull white, it is a harmless  eruption (breakout).    It has broken out in the skin.   He is clean.   "As for a  man, in case his head grows bald, it is baldness.   And  if his head  grows bald up in front,  it  is forehead baldness.   He is clean.   But  in case a reddish-white plague develops  in the baldness of the crown  or the forehead, it is leprosy  breaking out in the baldness of his crown or  of  his forehead.   And the priest  must look at him -- and if there  is a  eruption (breakout) of the reddish-white plague  in the baldness of his crown or of his forehead like the appearance of leprosy  in the skin of the flesh,  he is a leper.   He is unclean.    Unclean  is what  the priest  should declare him.   His plague  is on his head.   As for the leprous one  in whom the plague is,  his  garments should  be torn, and his head should become ungroomed, and  he should cover over the mustache and call out "Unclean, unclean!'    All  the days  that the plague  is in him  he will be unclean.    He is unclean.   He s hould dwell isolated.   Outside  the camp is his  dwelling place.   "As  for  a garment,  in case  the plague of leprosy develops in it, whether in  a woolen  garment  or  in linen garment,  or in the warp (vertical thread)  or in the woof (thread side to side under warp) of  the linen and of the wool, or in a  skin or  in anything made of skin, and the yellowish-green  or reddish plague  does develop in the  garment  or  in the skin or in the warp  or in the woof or in any article of skin, it is the plague of leprosy, and it must be shown  to the priest.    And the priest  must see the plague,  and he must quarantine  the plague 7 days.    When  he has seen the plague on the 7th day,  that the plague  has spread  in the  garment or in the warp, or  in the woof or in the skin for  any  use for which  the skin may  be made, the plague is malignant (infectious) leprosy.    It is unclean.     And  he must burn the garment  or the warp, or woof in the wool or  in the linen, or any article of skin in which the plague  may develop  because it is malignant (infectious) leprosy.   It should be burned in the fire.    "But if the priest takes a look, and, there now, the plague has not spread in the  garment  or in the warp or in the woof or any article of skin,  the  priest must also command  that they should wash that in which  the plague is,  and  he must quarantine  it a 2nd 7 days.    And  the priest must look at the plague after it  has been washed out, and if the plague has not changed  its look and yet the plague has not spread.  It is unclean.   You should burn it in the fire.    It is a low spot  in a threadbare  patch  on either its under side or its outside.     "But  if the priest has taken a look, and, there now, the plague is dull after it has been washed out,  he  must  then tear  it out of the  garment  or  the skin  or the warp  or the woof.     However, if it still appears in the  garment  or  in the warp or in the woof or  in any article of skin, it is breaking out.    You should  burn  in the fire whatever  it is i n which the plague is.    As  for  the garment  or the warp  or the woof  

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     or  any  article of skin  that you may wash, when  the plague  has disappeared from them,   it must  then be washed a 2nd time -- and it must be clean.   "This is the Law of  the plague  of leprosy  in  a garment  of wool or of linen, or  in any article  of skin, in order to pronounce it clean or to declare unclean."             14  And God  continued to speak to Moses, saying -- "This will become the law of the leper  in the day for establishing his purification, when  he must be brought to the priest.   And the priest  must go forth outside the camp, and the priest must look, and  if the plague of leprosy  has been cured  in the leprous one,  the priest must then give command -- and  he must take for cleansing himself  2  live clean birds  and cedarwood  and coccus scarlet material and hyssop.    And the priest must give  command -- and the one bird must be killed in an earthenware vessel over running water.   As  for the living bird, he should  take it  and the cedarwood and the coccus scarlet material and the hyssop, and he must dip them and the living bird  in the blood  of the bird that was  killed over the running water.   Then he must spatter  it 7 times upon the one  cleansing himself  from the leprosy  and  he must pronounce him clean, and  he  must send away  the  living bird  over the open field.    "And the one cleansing  himself must wash his garments  and shave off all  his hair and bathe in water  and must be clean, and afterward he may come into the camp.   And  he must dwell  outside his tent 7 days.  And it must occur on the 7th day that  he should shave off all his hair on his head  and his chin, and his eyebrows.  Yes , he should shave off all his hair, and he must wash his garments and bathe his flesh in water, and he must be clean.   On the 8th day -- he will take 2  sound  (healthy)  young rams and 1  sound (healthy)  lamb,  in its 1st year, and 3/10th of an  ephah (approx. 6.6 liter) of fine flour as a grain offering moistened  with oil and one log measure (approx. 0.31 liters) of oil -- and the priest who pronounces him clean must present the man who is cleansing himself, and the things, before God at the entrance of the tent of meeting.    And  the priest must take the one young ram and offer it for a guilt offering together with the log measure of oil, and must wave them to and fro  as  a wave offering before God. And he must slaughter the young  ram in  the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are regularly slaughtered, in a holy place, because like the sin offering, guilt offering belongs to the priest.   It  is something most holy. "And the priest  must  take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest must put it upon the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself  and upon the thumb of  his right hand  and upon  the  big toe of his right foot.   And  the priest  must take some of the log measure of oil and pour it upon the priest's left palm.   And the priest must  dip his right  finger  into the oil that is upon his left palm  and  must spatter some of the oil with his finger 7 times before God.    And of  the rest of the oil that is upon his palm the priest will put  some upon  the lobe of  the right ear  of the one cleansing himself  and upon the thumb of his right hand  and upon  the big toe of his right foot over the blood of the guilt offering.     And what  is left over of the oil that is upon  

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  the priest's  palm  he  will put upon  the head  of the one cleansing himself, and the priest must make  atonement for him before God.    "And  the priest must render up  the sin offering  and make atonement for the one cleansing himself from his impurity, and afterward  he will slaughter the burnt offering.    And the priest must offer up the burnt offering and the  grain offering upon the altar, and  the priest must make atonement for him -- and he must be clean.    "However,  if  he is  lowly  and does  not have  enough means,  he must then  take one  young ram as a guilt offering  for a wave offering in order make atonement for him  and 1/10 of ephah (2.2 liter) of fine flour moistened with oil as a grain offering, and a log measure (0.31 liter) of oil,  and 2 turtledoves or 2 young pigeons,  according  as he may  have the means, and  the one must serve as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.    On the 8th day  he must bring  them for establishing  his purification  to  the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting before God.   "And the priest must take the young ram of the guilt offering and the log measure of oil, and the priest must wave them to and fro as a wave offering before God.   He must slaughter the young ram of the guilt offering and  the priest must take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it  upon the lobe of the right ear of  the one cleansing himself and upon the thumb of his right hand and  upon the big toe of his right foot.    And the priest  will pour some of oil upon the priest's left palm.   And the priest must  spatter  with his  right finger  some of the  oil that  is upon  his left palm 7 times before God.   And the priest must put some of the oil that is on his palm upon the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself  and upon the thumb of his right hand and  upon the big toe of  his right foot over the place of the blood of the guilt offering.    And what is left over of the oil that is on the priest's palm   he will put  upon the head of the one cleansing himself in order to make atonement  for him before God.    "And he must render up the one of the turtledoves  or of the young pigeons  for which he may have the means, the one of them  for which he may have the  means as a sin offering  and other as burnt  offering along with the grain offering -- and the priest must make atonement  for the one cleansing   himself before God.     "This is the law for the one  in whom the plague of  leprosy  was who  may not have the means when establishing  his purification."   And  God proceeded to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying --"When  you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and  I do put the plague of leprosy  in a house of the land of your possession,  the  one to whom the house belongs must then come and tell the priest, saying, 'Something  like a plague has appeared to me in the house.'    And  the  priest must give orders, and  they must  clear out the house before the priest may come in to see the plague, that he may declare unclean  everything that is in the house --  and after that the priest will come in to see the house.    When  he has seen the plague, then  if the plague is in the walls of the house, with  yellowish-green or reddish depressions, and their appearance is lower than the wall surface,  

 

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 the  priest must then go out of the house to the entrance of the house and he must quarantine the house 7 days.   "And the priest must  return on the 7th day  and must take a  look -- and if the  plague has spread in the walls of the house, the priest must then give orders,  and  they must tear out the stones in which the plague is, and they must throw them outside the city  into an unclean place.    And  he  will have the house  scraped  off all around inside, and  they must pour  the  clay mortar that they  cut off  outside  the city  into an unclean place.    They  must  take other  stones  and insert them  in the place of the former stones -- and  he will have  different clay  mortar taken, and  he must have the house plastered.   "If  though,  the plague  returns  and it does break out in the house    after  having torn  out the stones   and after having  cut off the house and plastered it,   the  priest  must then  come  in and take a look -- and if the plague has spread in the house,  it  is malignant  (infectious)  leprosy  in the house.    It is unclean.    And  he must  have the house pulled down with its stones   and  its timbers   and  all the clay mortar of the house  and must have it carried  forth  outside  the city  to an unclean place.    But  whoever  comes  into the  house  any  of the days of quarantining -- it will be unclean  until the evening -- and whoever  lies down  in the  house should wash  his  garments, and  whoever  eats  in the house should wash his garments.     "However, if the priest   comes   at all  and he  does take a look, and, there now, the plague has not  spread  in the house  after having plastered  the house, the priest must then pronounce  the house clean, because  the plague has been healed.    And  to purify  the house from sin  he  must take 2 birds and cedarwood and coccus scarlet material and hyssop.  And  he  must  kill the one  bird  in an earthenware   vessel  over running water.    And  he must take the cedarwood and the hyssop and  the  coccus scarlet material  and the live bird  and dip them in the blood  of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and he must spatter it toward the house 7 times.    And  he  must purify  the house from sin with the blood  of the bird  and the running  water  and  the live bird and the cedarwood  and the hyssop and the coccus scarlet material.    And he  must send  the live bird away  outside the  city into the open field and must make atonement for the house --  and it must be clean.   "This  is  the law respecting any plague  of leprosy  and respecting  the abnormal falling off of hair  and respecting  the leprosy  of the garment (clothes)  and in the house and respecting the  eruption (breakout)  and  the scab and the blotch,  in order to give  instructions  when  something  is  unclean  and  when something is clean . This is law about leprosy."        15   And God  continued  to  speak  to Moses and Aaron,  saying -- "Speak  to  the sons of Israel, and  you must say to them, 'In  case any man has a running  discharge  occur  from his genital organ, his discharge is unclean.    And this  will become  his uncleanness by his discharge --  Whether his genital organ has flowed with  a running discharge, or his genital organ  is obstructed  from his running discharge,  it  is his uncleanness.    "'Any bed  upon  which the one having  a running discharge  may  lie down will be unclean,  and  any article  upon which  he   

     

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    may sit  will be unclean.   And a  man  who may touch  his  bed should wash his  garments,  and  he  must bathe  in water  and  be unclean  until the evening.     And whoever  sits  upon the article upon which the one having  a running   discharge was sitting should wash his garments (clothes), and  he must bathe in water  and  be unclean  until the evening.     And  whoever touches  the flesh of the one having  a running discharege should wash his garments,  and he must bathe in water  and be unclean until the evening.     And in case of  the one who has a running diacharge spitting  upon  somone clean, he must in that case  wash his garments  and bathe in water  and be unclean until the evening.    And any saddle  upon  which the one having running a  discharge  was riding will be unclean.    And  anyone  touching  anything  that happens  to be under him  will be unclean until the evening, and  he who carries them  will wash his  garments,  and  he  must bathe  in water  and be unclean until the evening.    Anyone whom the one having  a running  discharge might  touch when he has not  rinsed his hands  in water  must  then wash his garments and bathe in water and  be unclean until the evening.   And  an  earthenware  vessel that the one having a running discharge might touch should be smashed--   and any wooden  vessel should be rinsed with water.    "'Now  in case the one having a running  discharge would become clean from his running discharge, he must then  count for  himself  7 days for his purification,  and  he must wash his garments  and  bathe his  flesh  in running water  --  and he must be clean.    And on the 8th day  he  should  take for himself  2 turtledoves  or  2 young pigeons, and  he must come before God  to  the  entrance  of the tent of meeting  and  give them to the priest.   And the  priest  must offer them,  the one  as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering -- and  the priest must make  atonement  for him  before God  concerning his running discharge.    "'Now  in case of  a  man has  an emission  of semen  go  out from him, he must then bathe  all  his  flesh in water  and  be unclean until evening.    And  any garment and any skin  upon which the emission of semen  gets to be must be washed  with water  and  be unclean until the evening.     "'As for  a woman with whom  a man  may lie down with  an emission of semen, they must bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.   "'And in  case a woman  is having a running discharge, and  her running discharge  in her flesh proves to be blood,  she should continue 7 days in her menstrual impurity, and anyone touching her  will be unclean until the evening.    And  anyone  tuching her bed should wash his garments,  and he must bathe in water  and be unclean until the evening.   And anyone touching  any article upon which she was sitting should wash his  garments, and  he must bathe in water  and  be unclean until the evening.    And  if  it was  upon the bed or upon  another article that she was sitting,  by his touching it he will be unclean until the evening.   And if a man lies  down  with her  at all and her menstrual  impurity comes to be upon him,  he   must  then be unclean   7  

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      days,  and  any  bed upon  which he might lie down will be unclean.    "'As  for a woman,  in case the running  discharge of  her blood should be flowing many  days  when it  is not the regular  time of her menstrual impurity, or  in case she should have  a flow longer than her menstrual impurity,  all the  days of her  unclean running  discharge  will prove  as  in the days of her menstrual impurity.    She is unclean.   Any  bed upon  which she may  lie any of the days of  her running discharge  will become for  her as the bed of her menstrual impurity, and  any article upon  which  she may sit will become unclean like the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.    And anyone  touching  them will be unclean, and he must  wash  his  garments  and  bathe  in water and be unclean until the evening.    "'However, if  she has become  clean from her running discharge,  she  must  also  count for  herself  7 days,  and  afterward she will be clean.   And  on the 8th day  she should  take for herself 2 turtledoves or  2 young pigeons,  and she must bring them  to  the priest  at the entrance of the tent of meeting.    And the priest  must make the one a sin offering and the other  a burnt offering -- and  the priest must make atonement for  her before God concerning  her unclean running discharge.  "'And you must keep the sons of Israel separate  from their uncleanness, that they may not  die in their uncleanness  for their defiling of my tabernacle, which is in their midst.  "'This  is the  law about  the man having  a running discharge and the man  from whom  an emission of semen may go out so that he becomes unclean by it -- and  the menstruating woman  in her uncleanness, and anyone who has a flow of  his running discharge, whether a male or a female, and whether a man who lies down with an unclean woman.'"          16    And God proceeded  to speak  to Moses  after  the death of Aaron's  2 sons  for their approaching before God so that they died.     And  God  proceeded  to say to  Moses --"Speak to Aaron your brother, that he should  not at all  times  come  into the holy place  inside the curtain,  in front  of the  cover  which  is upon the Ark,  that  he may not die --  because  in  a cloud   I  shall  appear over the cover.      "With  the following Aaron  should  come  into the holy place -- with a young bull for a sin offering.    He should  put  on  the holy  linen robe, and  the linen  drawers  should come upon his flesh, and he should gird himself with the linen sash and wrap himself with the linen turban.    They  are holy garments.   And  he must bathe his flesh in   water and put them on.   "And  from  the assembly  of  the sons of Israel  he should  take  2 male kids  of the  goats  for a sin offering, and 1 ram for a burnt offering.     "And  Aaron  must present  the  bull of the sin offering,  which  is for himself,  and  he must  make atonement  in behalf of himself and his house.    "And he must  take the 2 goats and make them stand before God at the entrance of the tent of meeting.    And  Aaron  must draw  lots  over  the 2 goats,  the one lot for God and other lot for Azazel.   And  Aaron  must  present  the goat over   which the lot come up for God,   and   he must   make  it a sin offering.     But the goat  over  which  the lot came up  for Azazel should be stood alive  

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      before   God  to make atonement for it, so  as to send  it away  for Azazel into the wilderness.   "And Aaron  must present  the bull of the  sin offering, which is for himself, and  make an  atonement in behalf  of himself  and his house -- and  he must  slaughter the bull of the sin offering,  which is for himself.    "And  he must  take  the fire  holder full of burning  coals of fire  from  off the altar before God, and  the hollows  of  both  his hands full of fine perfumed incense, and  he must bring them inside the curtain.    He must also put the incense upon the fire before God, and  the cloud  of the  incense must overspread the Ark cover, which is upon the Testimony, that  he may not die.   "And he must take some of the bull's blood  and  spatter  it with  his finger in front of the cover on the east side,  and  he will spatter some of the blood with his finger 7  times before the cover.   "And he  must slaughter  the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people,  and  he must  bring  its blood  inside the curtain   and do  with  its blood  the same  as he did with the bull's blood -- and he must spatter it  toward the  cover  and  before the cover.    "And he  must make atonement  for  the  holy place  concerning  the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel   and concerning  their revolts   in  all their sins -- and that is the way he should do for the tent of meeting, which  is residing  with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.   " And  no other man should  happen to be in the tent of meeting from when  he goes  in to make atonement  in the holy place until he comes out -- and  he must make atonement in behalf of himself and in behalf of his house  and  in behalf of the entire congregation of Israel.    "And he must come  out  to the altar,  which  is  before God,  and  make atonement for it, and he must take some of the bull's blood and and some of the goat's  blood and put it upon  the horns  of the  altar round about.    He  must also spatter some of the blood  upon it  with his  finger 7  times  and cleanse  it and sanctify  it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.    "When  he has finished making atonement for the holy place  and  the  tent of meeting and the altar, he  must also present the live goat.   And  Aaron  must lay both  his hands upon the head of the live goat  and  confess over  it  all  the errors of the sons of Israel  and all their revolts  in all their sins, and  he must  put them  upon the head of the goat and send  it  away  by the  hand  of a  ready  man  into wilderness.    And the goat must  carry upon  itself all their  errors into a desert land, and he must send the goat away into the wilderness.      "And Aaron must come into the tent of meeting and  strip  off the linen garments  that  he put  on when  he went into the holy place, and  he must lay them down there.   And  he must bathe his flesh in water  in a holy  place  and put  on his garments, and  come out and render  up  his burnt offering  and the people's burnt offering   and make atonement  in  his own behalf  and  in behalf of the people.   He will make the fat of the sin offering smoke upon the altar.  "As   for the one  who sent  the goat away for Azazel, he  

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   should   wash his  garments, and   he must  bathe  his flesh in water, and  after that he may come into the camp.     "However,   he  will have the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, the blood of both of which was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, taken forth outside the camp, and they must burn their skins and their  flesh  and their  dung  in the fire.  And  the one who burned them  should  wash his  garments,  and  he must bathe  his flesh in water,  and  after  that he may come into the camp.   "And it  must  serve as  a statute  to  time indefinite for you people --  In the 7th month on  the 10th of the month   you   should  afflict  your   souls, and you must not do any work,   either   the native or   the alien resident  who is residing as an alien in your midst.   For  on this  day atonement will  be made for you to pronounce you clean.   You  will  be clean  from all  your  sins before God.    It is a sabbath of  complete rest for you, and you must  afflict your souls.   It is a statute (regulation) to time indefinite.    "And the priest  who  will  be anointed and  whose  hand  will  be filled with power  to act  as priest  as successor of his father  must make an atonement  and must put on the linen garments.   They are holy garments.    And he must make atonement for the holy sanctuary and for the tent of meeting and for the altar  he  will  make atonement -- and for the priests  and  for  all the people  of the congregation  he  will make atonement.  And  this  must  serve  as a statute  to time  indefinite  for you, in order to make atonement for the sons of Israel  concerning  all their  sins once in the year."   Accordingly  he did just as God  had commanded Moses.         17   And  God went  on to speak  to Moses,  saying --  "Speak  to Aaron and his sons and all the sons of Israel, and  you must say to them -- 'This  is the thing that God has commanded, saying -- '""As  for  any man of the house of Israel who slaughters a  bull or a young ram or a goat in the camp  or who slaughters   it  outside the camp, and  does  not actually  bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting  to present it as an offering to God before the tabernacle of God,   bloodguilt will  be counted to  that man.    He  has  shed  blood  (murdered), and  that  man  must be cut off  from among his people, in  order that the sons of Israel may bring  their sacrifices, which  they are sacrificing  in  the open field, and they must bring them  to God  to  the entrance of the tent of meeting to the priest, and  they must  sacrifice these as communion sacrifices to God.      And the priest must  sprinkle  the blood upon God's altar  at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and  he must  make the fat smoke as a restful odor to God. So  they should no longer sacrifice  their  sacrifices to the goat shaped demons with  which they are having immoral  interc*urse.    This   will  serve as a statute  to time  indefinite for you, throughout your generations."'     And   you should  say to them, 'As  for any man  of the house of Israel  or some alien resident  who  may be residing  as an alien  in  your midst  who  offers up a burnt offering  or  a  sacrifice  and  does not bring  it  to the entrance of the tent of meeting  to  render it to God, that  man  must  be cut off from his people.    "'As  for any man of the house of Israel or some alien   

    

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resident  who is residing as an  alien  in  your midst  who eats any sort of blood,    I   shall  certainly set my face against  the soul that is eating the blood, and I   shall indeed  cut him off from among his people.   For  the soul of the flesh  is in the blood,  and  I  myself  have put it upon  the altar for you to make atonement  for your  souls,  because  it  is the blood that  makes atonement by the soul in it.   That is why I have said to the sons of Israel--"No soul of you must eat blood, and no alien resident who   is residing  as an alien in your midst should eat blood."     "'As   for any soul  that  eats a body already dead  or  something  torn  by a wild beast,  whether  a native or an  alien resident,  he must in that case  wash his garments  and  bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening --  and he must be clean.    But   if he will not wash them and will not bathe his flesh, he must then answer for his error.'"         18    And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying--"Speak to the sons of Israel, and you say to them, "I am the Lord your God.  The way of Egypt does, in which you  dwelt--You must not do, and the way of Canaan does-- in which I am bringing you--You must not do, and in their statutes (regulations) you must not walk (obey).    My judicial  decisions (God's laws) you must carry out, and my statutes you should keep so as to walk (obey, live) in them.     I am Jehovah your Lord.   You must keep my statutes and  my judicial decisions which if a man will do, he must also live by means of them.    I am God.      "'You people must not  come  near,  any man of you, to  any  close fleshly relative of his -- to lay bare nakedness.    I am Jehovah.   The nakedness   of your father and the nakedness of your mother   you must not lay bare.    She is your mother.   You must not lay bare her nakedness.    "'The nakedness of  your  father's wife you must not lay bare -- It is your father's nakedness.     "'As for the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born in the same household, or  born outside it, you must not lay bare their nakedness.      "'As for the nakedness of the daughter of your son or the daughter of your daughter (grand-children) you must not lay bare their nakedness, because they are your nakedness.    "'As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, the offspring of your father, she being your sister, you must not lay bare her nakedness.     "'The  nakedness of your father's sister (your aunt) you must not lay bare.   She is a blood relation to your father.   "'The nakedness of your mother's sister (your aunt)  you  must not lay bare, because she is a blood relation to your mother.    "'The  nakedness of your father's brother (your uncle)  you must not lay  

    

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   bare.   You  must  not  come near  his wife.   She is your aunt.  "'The nakedness of your daughter-in-law  you must not lay bare.    She is your son's wife.    You not lay her nakedness bare.   "'The nakedness to your brother's wife (your sister-in -law)  you must not lay bare.    It is your brother's nakedness.     "'The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you must not lay bare.    The daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter  you must not take (have relation) in order  to lay her nakedness bare.   They are cases of blood relationship.    It is loose conduct.    "'You must not take a woman in addition to her sister (sisters) as a rival to uncover her nakedness, that is, besides her during her lifetime (while she is still alive).   "'And  you must not  come near  a woman during the menstruation of her impurity to lay her nakedness bare.     "'And  you must not give your emission as semen (se*) to the wife of your associate  to become unclean (defiled, sin) by it.    "'And  you must not allow the devoting of any of your offspring to Molech (child sacrifice through fire or war).    You must not profane (non religious, Godless) the name of your God that way.    I am Jehovah.      "And you must not lie down with a  male the same as you lie down with a woman.    It is a detestable (hated, loathed by God) thing.     "'And  you must not give your emission (se*) to any beast (animal) to become unclean by it, and a woman should not stand before a beast (animal) to have connection (se*) with it.   It is violation of what is natural.     "'Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because by all these things the nations whom I am sending out  from before you have  made themselves unclean (defiled).    Consequently the land is unclean, and  I shall bring punishment for its error upon it, and the land will vomit its inhabitants out.     And you yourselves  must keep my statutes and my judicial decisions, and you must not do any of all these detestable things, whether a native or an alien resident who is residing as an alien  in your midst.    For all these detestable things the men of the land who were  before you have done, so that the land is unclean.    Then the land will not vomit you out for your defiling  it  the same the same way  as it will  certainly vomit  the nations out who were before you.    In  case anyone does any of all these detestable things, then the souls doing them must be cut off from among their people. And you must  keep your obligation  to me not to carry on any of the detestable customs  that have been carried on before you, that you may not make yourselves unclean by them. I am Jehovah your Lord.'"            19   And  God spoke further to Moses, saying --  "Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'You should prove yourselves holy, because I   Jehovah your Lord am holy. "'You should  fear each one his mother and his father, and my sabbaths you should keep.   I am Jehovah your God.   Do not turn yourselves to valueless gods, and  you  must not make molten gods for yourselves.    I am Jehovah your God.  "'Now  in case you should sacrifice a communion sacrifice to God, you should sacrifice it to gain approval for yourselves.    On  the day of your sacrifice, and directly the next day   it should be eaten, but what  

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    is  left  over till the  3rd  day  should  be  burned  in the fire.   If,  though,  it should  at all be eaten  on  the  3rd day, it is  a foul thing.  It  will not  be accepted with  approval.    And  the one eating it will answer for his error, because  he has profaned a holy thing of God-- and that soul (person) must be cut off from his people.    "'And when you people reap the harvest of your land, you must not reap the edge of your field completely, and  the gleaning (collecting bits by bits) of your harvest you must not pick up.     Also, you must not gather the leftovers of your vineyard, and you must not pick up the scattered grapes of your vineyard.    For  the afflicted (distressed, troubled) one and the alien resident should leave them.    I am Jehovah your Lord.    "'You people must not steal, and you must not deceive, and you must not deal falsely (dishonestly) anyone with his associate.    And you must not swear  in my name to a lie, so  that you  do profane the name of your God.    I am Jehovah.   You must not defraud (cheat, swindle, deceive) your fellow, and you must not rob.   The  wages of a hired laborer should not stay all night with you until morning.    '"'You must not call down evil upon a deaf man, and before a blind man  you must not put an obstacle --  and you must be in fear of your God,    I am Jehovah.     "'You  people must not do injustice in the judgment.   You  must not treat the  lowly  with partiality, and you must not prefer  the person of a great one.   With  justice you should judge your associate.    "'You must not go  around among your people for the sake of slandering (make false damaging statement).    You must not stand up against your fellow's blood (relative). I am God. "'You must not hate your brother in your heart.   You  should  by all means reprove (reprimand) your associate, that you may not bear sin along with him.    "'You  must not take  vengeance  nor have a grudge against the sons of your people -- and you must love your fellow as yourself.    I am God.    "'You  people should keep my statutes.   You  must not interbreed your domestic animals of 2 sorts.   You must not sow your field with seeds of 2 sorts, and you must  not put upon yourself -- a garment of 2 sorts of thread mixed together.   "'Now in case a man lies down with a woman and has an emission of semen (se*) when she is  a maidservant  designated for another man, and she has not in any way been redeemed nor has freedom been given to her, punishment should take place.   They  should not be put to death, because she was not set free.    And  he must bring his guilt offering to God  to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a  ram of guilt offering.     And  the priest must make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before God for  his  sin that he committed -- and his sin that he committed must be forgiven (for him).    "And  in   case   you people  come into the land,  and  you must plant any tree for food, you must also consider its fruitage impure as its "foreskin". For 3 years it will continue uncircumcised for you.   It should not be eaten.     But in the 4th year all its fruit  will become a holy thing of festal   exultation (happiness)  to God.     And  in  the 5th year  you may  eat its  fruit in order to add its produce to yourselves. I am Jehovah your God.     "'You must eat nothing along with blood.   

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 "'You  must  not look for omens, and  you  must not practice magic. "'You must not cut your sidelocks (sideburns) short around, and you must not destroy the extremity of your beard.    "'And  you must not make cuts  in your  flesh for a deceased  soul (person), and you must not put tattoo  marking upon yourselves.   I am God.    "'Do not profane your  daughter by making her a prostitute, in order that the land may not commit prostitution and the land actually be filled with loose morals.     "'My sabbaths you should keep, and you should stand in awe of my sanctuary. I am God.    "'Do  not turn yourselves to the spirit mediums, and do not consult  professional foretellers  of events, so  as to become unclean by them.   I am Jehovah your God.      "'Before gray hair you should rise up, and you must show consideration for the person of an old man, and you must be in fear of your God.   I am  Jehovah.     "'And  in case an alien resident resides with you  as an alien in your land, you must not mistreat him.   The alien resident  who  resides as  an alien with you  should  become to you like a native or yours -- and you must love him as yourself, for you became alien residents in  the land of  Egypt.   I am God your Lord.    "'You must not commit   injustice in judging, in measuring, in weighing or in measuring liquids.    You  should prove to have accurate scales, accurate weights,  an  accurate ephah (22 liters)  and  an accurate  hin (approx. 3.67 liter).      Jehovah your God I am, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt.     So   you must keep all my statutes and all my judicial decisions, and   you must do them.  I am  God."'       20   And God  went on  speaking  to Moses,  saying -- "You  are  to say  the  sons  of  Israel,  'Any  man  of the sons  of  Israel, and any alien resident  who  resides  as  an alien in Israel,  who    gives  any  of his  offspring  to Molech,  should be  put  to death without  fail.   The people of the land  should pelt him to death with stones.    As for me, I  shall  set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech  for the purpose of defiling my holy place, and to profane my holy name.    And  if the people of the land should deliberately  hide  their  eyes from  that  man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech by not putting him to death,  then I, for my part, will certainly fix my  face against  that man and his family, and I   shall  indeed  cut him and all those who have immoral   interc*urse   along  with him in having immoral  interc*urse  with Molech off from among their people.   "'As for the soul (person) who turns himself to the spirit mediums and the professional foretellers of events  so as  to have immoral  interc*urse  with them. I  shall certainly set my face against that soul and cut him off from among his people.   "'And  you  must sanctify yourselves and prove yourselves holy, because I am Jehovah your God.    And  you must keep my statutes and do them.    I   am Jehovah who is sanctifying (purifying) you.    "'In  case there should be any man who calls down evil   upon his father and mother,  

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     he should be put to death without fail.    It   is his father and   his mother upon whom he has called down evil.    His own blood is upon him.    "'Now  a  man who commits adultery with another man's wife is one who commits adultery with the wife of his fellowman.     He should be put to death without fail, the adulterer and the adulteress as well.     And   a man who lies down with his father's wife has laid bare the nakedness of of his father.    Both  of them should be put to death without fail.    Their  own blood is upon them.    And  where a man lies down with his daughter-in law, both of them should be put to death without fail.    They committed   a violation of what is natural.    Their own blood is upon them.    "'And  when a man lies down with a male the same as one lies down with a woman, both of them done a detestable thing.    They should be put to death without fail.     Their own blood is upon them.    "'And  where a man takes a woman and her mother, it is loose conduct. They should burn him and them in  the fire, in order that  loose conduct may not continue in your midst.      "'And where a man give his seminal emission (se*) to a  beast (animal), he should be put to death without fail, and you should kill the  beast (animal).    And  where  a woman approaches any   beast (animal)  to have a connection (se*, relation) with it, you must kill the woman and the  beast.   They should be  put to death without fail.    Their own blood is upon them.     "'And where a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or  the daughter of mother, and he does see her nakedness, and  she herself sees his nakedness, it is shame.    So   they must be cut  off  before the eyes of the sons of their people.     It is the nakedness of his sister  that he has laid bare. He should answer for his error.     "'And  where a man lies down with a menstruating  woman  and does lay bare her  nakedness,  he has  exposed her source,  and she herself has laid bare the source of her blood.     So both of them must be cut off from among their people. "'And  the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister (your aunts) you must not lay bare, because it is his blood relation that one has exposed.    They should answer for their error.    And  a man who lies down with his uncle's wife has laid bare the nakedness of his uncle.   They should answer for their sin.   They should die childless.     And  where a man takes his brother's wife, it is something abhorrent (detestable, loathsome).     It  is  the nakedness of his brother that he has laid bare. They should become childless.   "'And you  people must   keep all my statutes and all my judicial decisions and do them, that the land to which I am bringing  you to  dwell  in it may not vomit you out.      And  you must not walk (live, obey) in the statutes (regulation) of the nations whom I am sending you out from before you, because  they have done all these things and I abhor (detest, hate, loathe) them.     Hence I said to you--"You, for your part, will take possession of their ground, and I, for my part, shall give  it  to you to take possession of it,   a  land flowing with milk and honey. Jehovah your Lord I am, who  have divided you off  from the peoples."    And  you must make distinction  between the clean beast     and  the  unclean and  between the unclean fowl and the clean--and you must not make your  souls loathsome with the  beast  and the fowl and anything that moves

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 on  the ground that I have divided  off  you  in declaring them unclean.    And  you  must prove yourselves holy to me, because I Jehovah am holy, and I am proceeding  to divide you  off from the peoples to become mine.     "'And as for a man or woman  in whom there  proves to  be a mediumistic  spirit or  spirit of prediction, they should be put to death without fail.     They  should pelt them to death with stones.    Their own blood is  upon them.'"       21  And    God  went  on to say  to Moses -- "Talk to the priests, Aaron's sons, and you must say to them, 'For  a deceased  soul  no one  may defile (ceremonially unclean, degrade, corrupt) himself among his people.      But for  a blood  relation  of his  who is close to him, for his mother and father   and  for his son and daughter   and for his brother and sister, a  virgin  who is close to him, who  has not become a man's, for her  he may defile himself.     He   may not defile himself for a woman possessed by an  owner  among his people  so  as to make himself profane.   They  should  not produce baldness  upon their  heads, and the  extremity  of  their beard  they should not shave, and  on their flesh they should not make incision.    They   should  prove themselves  holy to their God,  and  they should not profane the name of their God, because they are those presenting God's offering made by fire,  the  bread of their God, and  they must prove themselves  holy.    A  prostitute  or  a violated  woman  they should not take -- and a woman divorced  from her husband  they should not take, because  he is holy to his God.   So  you must sanctify him,  because  he  is  one presenting  the bread of your God.     He  should prove  to be holy to you, because  I  Jehovah,  who  am sanctifying you, am holy.    "'Now  in  case the daughter of  a priest should make herself profane  by  committing prostitution, it  is her father that she is profaning.      She  should be burned in the fire.    "'And  as for the high priest  of  his brothers upon whose head the anointing oil would be poured and  whose hand was filled with power to wear the garments, he should  not let his head go ungroomed, and he should not tear his garments.   And  he should  not come to any dead soul.  For his father  and  his mother  he  may not defile himself.    He should  also  not go out  from the sanctuary of his God, because the sign of dedication, the anointing oil of his God, is upon him. I am Jehovah.   "'And  for his part, he should  take a woman in her virginity.    As  for for a widow or a divorced woman and  one violated, a prostitute, none of these may he take, but he should take a virgin from his people as a wife.   And he should not profane his seed among his people, because I  am God who  is sanctifying him'"    And God continued to speak to Moses, saying  --"Speak  to  Aaron,  saying,  'No  man of your seed throughout their generations in whom there proves to be a defect may come near  to present  the bread of his God.    In   case there  is any man in whom there is a defect, he may not come near -- a man blind or lame or with his nose slit or with one member  too long, or a man in whom there proves to be a fracture  of  the foot or  a fracture of the hand  or hunchback or thin or diseased      

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   in his eyes or scabby or having ringworms or having his testicles broken.     Any   man of the seed (offspring) of Aaron the priest in whom there is a defect may not approach to present God's offerings made by fire.      There   is   a defect in him.    He may not approach to present the bread of his God.    He may eat the bread of his God from the most holy things and from the holy things. However, he may not come in near the curtain, and he may not approach the altar, because there is a defect in him -- and he should not profane my sanctuary, for I am God who is sanctifying them.'"   Accordingly Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and all the sons of Israel.         22    And God spoke  further to Moses, saying --"Speak  to Aaron  and his sons, that they may keep themselves  separate  from  the holy things of the sons of Israel  and  not profane  my holy name  in the things  they are sanctifying  (purifying)  to me.    I am Jehovah.   Say  to them, 'Throughout  your generations   any  man of  all your offspring who comes near to the holy things, which  the sons of Israel  wil l sanctify to God, while his uncleanness is upon him, that  person must be cut off from before me. I am God.      No  man of Aaron's offspring  when he is leprous  or  has  a  running  discharge  may  eat of the holy things 1 until he becomes clean,   neither  he who  touches anyone unclean  by  a  deceased  soul or a  man  from whom there  goes out a seminal emission, nor  a man who touches any swarming thing that is unclean for him, or touches a  man  who is unclean  for  him as respects any uncleanness of his.    The soul  who touches any such must be  unclean  until the  evening   and may  not eat  any of the holy things, but he must bathe his flesh in water.    When the sun has set, he must also be clean, and afterward he may eat some of the holy things, because it is his bread.    He should also not eat any body already dead or anything torn by wild animals so as to become unclean by it.    I am God.    And they must keep their obligation to me, that they may not carry sin  because of it and have to die for it because they were profaning it.    I am  God who is sanctifying them. And no stranger at all may eat anything holy.    No settler with a priest nor  a  hired laborer may  eat anything  holy.    But in case a priest should purchase a soul, as a purchase with his money, he as such may share in eating it.     As for slaves born in his house, they as such may share in eating his bread.     In case the daughter of a priest should become a man's who is a stranger, she as such may not eat of the contribution of the holy things.    But in case the daughter of a priest should become a widow or divorced when she has no offspring, and she must return to her father's house as in her youth, she may eat some of her father's bread, but no stranger at all may feed on it.    Now in case a man eats a holy thing by mistake, he must then add the 5th of it to it and must give the holy thing to the priest.    So they should not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they may contribute to God, and actually cause them to bear the punishment of guiltiness because of their eating their holy things--for I am God who is sanctifying them.'"     And God continued to   speak  to Moses, saying --"Speak  to  Aaron and  his sons and   all the sons of Israel, and 

    

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  you  must say to them, 'As  for  any man of the house of  Israel or some alient resident in Israel   who presents  his offering,  for any their vows  or  for any of their voluntary  offerings, which  they  may  present to  God  for a burnt offering,  to  gain  approval for  you it  must  be sound,  a male among the herd,  among the young rams  or  among  the goats.    Anything   in  which  there  is  a  defect you must not present,  because  it  will  not serve  to gain  approval  for  you.   "'And  in case  a man  should  present  a  communion  sacrifice  to  God  in order to pay  a  vow  or as  a voluntary  offering,  it should  prove to be  a  sound  one among the herd or the flock,  in  order  to gain approval.   No  defect  at  all should  prove  be in it.    No  case of blindness or  fracture  or having  a cut  or wart or scabbiness or ringworm,  none  of these must you present  to God,  and no offering  made by  fire  from  them  must  you put upon  the altar for God.   As  for a bull or a sheep having  a member  too long or too short, you  may  nake it a  voluntary  offering --  but  for a vow  it will  not  be  accepted  with approval.  But  one  having  the testicles squeezed   or crushed  or pulled  off or cut off you  must  not present ot God,  and in  your land you should not render them up.   And  any  of all these from  the hand  of a foreigner  you  not present as the bread of your  God,  because  their corruption is in them.   There is defect in them.    They will  not be accepted with approval  of you.'"  And  God spoke  further to  Moses, saying -- "Should  a bull or a young  ram  or a goat  be  born   then  it must continue under its mother 7 days, but  from   the  8th  day  and forward  it will  be accepted  with  approval   as an offering, an  offering  made  by fire  to God.   As  for  a bull and a sheep  you must not slaughter it and  its young  one  on the  one  day.     "And  in  case  you should  sacrifice  a thanksgiving  sacrifice  to God,  you should be eaten.  You  msut not leave  any  of it until  morning.  I am  God.   "And you must  keep my commandments and do them.   I am God.    And  you must not profane my  holy name,  and I  must  be sanctified  in the midst of the  sons of Israel.   I  am the One  bringing  you  out of the land of Egypt  to prove myself  God to you.  I  am  God."        23   And God went on speaking to Moses, saying --"Speak to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'The seasonal festivals of God that you should proclaim are holy conventions.   These are my seasonal festivals-- "'6 days may work be done, but on the 7th day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convention. You may do no sort of work.   It  is  a sabbath  to God in all places where you dwell.    "'These  are  the seasonal festivals of God, holy conventions,   which you should proclaim at their appointed times -- In the 1st month, on the 14th day of the month, between the 2 evenings is the passover to God.     "'And on the 15th day of this month is the festival of unfermented cakes to God.     7 days  you should eat  unfermented cakes.   On the 1st day you will have a holy convention occur. No sort of laborious  

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    work  may you do.  But  you must present an offering  made by fire to God 7 days.   On the 7th day there will be a holy convention.   No sort of laborious work may you do.'"     And  God  continued to speak to Moses, saying --"Speak to the sons of that Israel, and you must say to them, 'When you eventually come into the land that I am giving you,  and  you  have  reaped  its harvest, you must also bring a sheaf of the   1stfruits  of your harvest  to the priest.     And  he must wave the sheaf  to and fro before  God to gain approval for you.   Directly the day after the sabbath the priest should wave it to and fro.   And on  the day of your having the sheaf waved to and fro you must render up a  sound  young  ram, in its 1st year, for a burnt offering to God -- and as its grain offering 2/10 of an epah (approx. 4.4 liters) of fine flour moistened   with oil,  as  an offering made by fire to God, a restful odor --  and  its  drink offering  a 4th of a hin (1/4 hin = 0.92 liter, 1 hin = 3.67  liter) of wine.   You must  eat no  bread  nor roasted grain  nor  new grain until this very day,  until  your bringing the offering of your God.    It   is a statute to time indefinite for your generations in all places  where you   dwell.    "'And  you must count for yourselves  from  the day  after the sabbath,  from  the day of your bringing the sheaf of the wave offering, 7 sabbaths.    They should prove to be complete.   To the day after the 7th sabbath you should count 50 days, and you must present a new grain offering to God.    Out of your   dwelling  places  you should  bring 2 loaves as wave offering.   Of  two  10th  of ephah (2/10 of 22 liter = 4.4 liter) of fine flour they  should prove to be.    They   should be baked leavened, as 1st ripe fruits to God.   And you must  present  along with the loaves  7   sound  male lambs, each 1 year old, and 1 young bull, and 2 rams.  They should serve as a burnt offering to God along with their grain offering and their drink offerings as an offering made by fire, of restful odor to God.   You must render up 1 of the young goats as a sin offering and 2 male lambs, each  1 year old,  and young  bull  and  2 rams.   They should  serve  as  a burnt  offering  to God  along with their  grain  offering   and their drink offering made by fire, of  a restful odor to God.   And  you must render up 1 kid of the goats  as  sin offering  and 2 males lambs, each a year old,  as  a communion sacrifice.   And  the priest  must wave them  to and fro along with the loaves of the 1st ripe fruits, as  a wave  offering  before God,  along with the 2 male lambs.  They  should  serve  as  something holy to God for the priest.   And  you must make a proclamation on this very day -- there will be a holy convention for yourselves.    No sort of laborious work  may you do.    It  is a  statute to time indefinite  in  all your  dwelling places for your generations.   "'And when you people reap the harvest of your land, you must not  do completely  the edge of your field when  you are reaping, and the gleaning of your harvest you  must not pick up.   You should leave them for  the afflicted (troubled) one  and  the alien resident. I am Jehovah your  God.'"   And  God  went  on speaking  to Moses, saying -- "Speak to  the  sons  of  Israel saying,   'In  the  7th  month  on  the 1st of the month,  there  should  occur  for you  a complete rest,  a memorial  by by the trumpet blast, a holy convention.    No  sort of laborious   work may you do, and you must present  an offering  made by fire to God.'"    And  God  spoke  further to Moses, saying -- "However,  on  the 10th  of this  7th month is the day of atonement.    A  holy convention  should  take place for you, and  you  must afflict (trouble) your souls and present an     

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  offering  made  by fire to God.     And  you  must  do  no sort of work on this very day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for you before God your Lord -- because  every soul that  will not be afflicted  on this very day must be cut off from his people.      As  for any  soul  that will do any sort of work on this very day,  I  must destroy that soul from among his people.    You must do no sort of work.    It is a statute to time indefinite for your generations in  all places where you  dwell.   It  is  a sabbath  of complete rest for you, and you must afflict your souls on the 9th of the month in the evening.    From evening to evening you should observe your sabbath."       And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons of Israel, saying, 'On the 15th day on this 7th month  is the festival of booths  for 7 days to God.   On  the 1st day is a holy convention.    No  sort of laborious work may you do.    7 days you should present an offering made by fire to God.    On the 8th day there should occur a holy convention for you, and you must present an offering made by fire to God.      It is a solemn assembly.     No  sort of laborious work may you do. "'These  are the seasonal  festivals of God that you  should  proclaim as holy conventions, for presenting an offering made by fire to God -- the burnt offering and the grain offering of the sacrifice and the drink offering according to the daily schedule, besides the sabbath of God and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your voluntary offerings, which you should give to God.    However, on  the 15th day of the 7th month, when you have gathered  the produce of the land, you should celebrate the festival of God 7 days.   On  the 1st day is a complete rest and on the 8th day is a complete rest.    And  you must take  for  yourselves  on  the 1st day the fruit  of splendid trees, the fronds (large leaf) of palm trees  and the boughs of branchy  trees and poplars  of the torrent valley, and you must rejoice before God your Lord 7 days.    And  you must celebrate it  as a festival  to God 7 days in the year.    As   a  statute to time indefinite   during your generations, you should celebrate it in the 7th month.      It     is in the   booths you should   dwell   7 days.     All  the  natives  in Israel   should  dwell   in the booths, in order  that your generations  may  know  that it was in the booths that  I made the sons of Israel to  dwell   when I was bringing   them out of the land of Egypt.    I am Jehovah your Lord.'"     Accordingly   Moses  spoke  of the seasonal festivals of God to the sons of Israel.          24   And  God  proceeded to speak to Moses, saying  --"Command   the  sons of  Israel  that  they  get for you pure, beaten olive oil  for  the  luminary,  to  light  up the lamp constantly.     Outside  the curtain  of  the Testimony  in  the tent  of meeting  Aaron  should   set it in order from evening to morning before God constantly.    It   is a statute to time  indefinite during your generations.    Upon the lampstand  of pure gold  he should  set  the  lamps  in order  before  God  constantly.    "And  you  must take fine  flour   and  bake  it  up into 12 ring-shaped cakes.    2/10th  of  an ephah (4.4 liter)  should go to  each  

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  ring shaped cake.   And  you  must  place them  in  2 sets of  layers,  6 to the layer set,   upon  the table of pure  gold  before  God.   And  you must put pure frankincense upon each layer set, and  it must  serve as the bread for a remembrancer, an  offering made  by fire to God.    On   one sabbath day after another   he  should  set  it in  order before God constantly.    It  is a covenant  to time indefinite with the sons of Israel.   And   It  must become  Aaron's and  his sons'  and  they must  eat it in a holy place, because it   is  something most   holy  for him   from  God's offering made by fire, as a regulation to time indefinite.     Now   a son of an Israelite woman, who, however, was the son of an Egyptian man, went out to the midst  of  the  sons of   the  Israel, and the son of the Israelitess and the Israelite   man began  to  struggle   with each other  in the camp.   And  the son of  Israelite woman began to abuse the Name, and  to call down evil upon it.    So  they brought him to Moses.     Incidentally, his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.    Then  they  committed  him  into custody till there  should  be distinct declaration  to them according to the  saying  of Jehovah.    And  God  proceeded  to  speak to Moses, saying -- "Bring  forth  the  one who called down evil to the outside of the camp -- and all those who heard him must  lay  their  hands  upon  his head, and  the entire assembly  must  pelt  him with stones.   And  you should speak  to  the  sons of Israel, saying, 'In  case any man calls down evil upon his God, he must then answer for his sin.   So the abuser of God's name should be put to death without fail.    The  entire  assembly  should  without  fail pelt him with stones.    The   alien resident  the  same  as the native  should  be put  to death  for  his abusing the Name.    "'And  in case a man strikes  any soul of mankind fatally, he should be put to death without fail.     And  the fatal striker of the  soul  of a domestic animal should  make compensation for it,  soul for soul.    And  in  case  a  man should cause a defect in his associate,   then  just as he has done, so it should be done to him.     Fracture  for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, the  same sort of defect  he may cause in the man, that  is what  should be caused in him.   And the fatal striker of a beast should make compensation for it, but the fatal striker of man should be put to death.    "'One  judicial decision  should  hold good for you.   The alien resident should  prove to be the same as native, because I am Jehovah your Lord.'"      After  that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and  they  brought  forth  the one who had  called down evil to the outside of the camp, and they pelted him with stones. Thus the sons of Israel did just as God had commanded Moses.         25    And   God  spoke further  to Moses  in Mount  Sinai, saying  --"Speak  to the sons of Israel,  and you must say  to them,  "When  you eventually  come into the land I am giving you,  then the land must  observe a sabbath to God.     6   years you should  sow   your  field with seed,  and  6 years  you  should prune your vineyard, and  you must  gather land's produce. But in  the 7th year  there  should occur  a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath  to God.   Your field you must not sow with seed, and your vineyard  

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 must  not prune.   The  growth from  spilled  kernels  of your  harvest you  must  not  reap,   and  the grapes of your  unpruned  vine you must not gather.    There should occur a   year of complete rest for the land.    And the sabbath of the land must serve you people for food, for you and your slave man  and  slave girl,  and your hired laborer  and  the  settler  with  you, those who are residing as aliens with you, and for your domestic animal and for the wild animal  that is your land.    All  its produce should serve for eating.     "'And  you  must count for yourself   7 sabbaths of years,  7 times 7 years, and the days of the 7 sabbaths of  years must amount to  49 years for you.   And you must  cause  the horn of loud  tone to sound in the 7th month on the 10th (day) of the month --  on  the day of  atonement you people should cause the horn to sound in all your land.     And  you must sanctify  the 50th year and proclaim  liberty  in  the land to all its inhabitants.   It  will become  a Jubilee (anniversary celebration) for you, and  you  must  return  each  one to his possession   and  you should return each one to his family.     A  Jubilee is what that 50th year  will become for you.    You  must not sow seed nor reap the land's growth   from  spilled kernels   nor gather the grapes  of its  unpruned vines.     For it is a Jubilee.   It  should  become something holy to you.    From  the  field  you  may  eat what the land produces.    "'In this  year  of the  Jubilee  you  should return each  one to his possession.     Now  in case  you should  sell merchandise to your associate or buying from your associate's hand,  do  not  do wrong   one another.     By the number of   the years after the Jubilee  you should  buy from your  associate -- by the number  of  the  years  of  the crops  he should sell to you.    In  proportion  to  the  great number  of years he  should  increase  its purchase value, and  in  proportion  to the fewness of years  he  should  reduce  its purchase value, because the number of the crops is what he is selling to you.   And you must not wrong anyone his associate, and  you must be in fear of your God, because  I  am Jehovah your Lord.      So  you  must  carry out my statutes  and  you should  keep  my judicial decisions and you must  carry them out.     Then   you  will certainly dwell  on the land in security.    And the land will  indeed  give its fruitage, and you will certainly eat to satisfaction  and  dwell  in security on it.   "'But in  case you should say--"What  are we going  to eat in the  7th year seeing that we may  not sow seed or gather our crops?"   in  that case I shall certainly command my blessing for you in the 6th year, and it must yield  its crop for 3 years.   And  you must  sow  seed the 8th year and you must eat  from the old crop until the 9th year.   Until the coming of its  crop you will eat the old.   "'So  the  land  should  not be sold in perpetuity, (restriction or state of being lasting forever), because the land is mine. For  you  are  alien residents  and  settlers  from my standpoint.     And in all the land of your  possession you  should  grant  to the land the right of buying back.   "'In  case  your  brother  grows  poor  and has to  sell  some  of his possession, a  repurchaser  closely  related to him must  also  come and   buy back what his brother sold.    And  in case anyone   proves  to have no repurchaser  and  his own hand does make gain and he does find enough for its repurchase, he  must also calculate the years from when he sold it and  

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 he must return  what  money  remains  over to the man to whom he made the sale, and  he  must  return to his possession.   "'But  if  his hand  does  not find  enough  to  give back to him, what  he sold must also  continue  in the  hand of  its purchaser  until  the Jubilee year -- and  it  must go  out  in the Jubilee, and  he  must return to his possession.    "'Now  in case  a  man  should  sell  a  dwelling  house  in a  walled city, his  right  of  repurchase  must also  continue  till the year  from  the time of  his sale finishes out -- his  right of repurchase should continue  a  whole year.   But  if  it should  not be bought back before the complete  year  has come  to  the full for him,  the  house that  is  in the  city  that has  wall must  also stand in perpetuity  as the property  of  its  purchaser  during  his generations.   It   should  not go out in the Jubilee.    However,  the houses  of settlements  that have  no wall  about them   should  account as part of the field of the country.   Right  of repurchase  should continue for it,  and in  the Jubilee  it should go out.   "'As  for cities  of  the Levites  with the houses  of  the cities of their possession, the right of repurchase should continue to  time indefinite  for the Levites.     And  where the property  of the Levites  is  not bought back, the  house sold in the city in  his possession  must  also  go out in the Jubilee -- because  the houses of the cities of the Levites  are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.     Moreover, the field  of pasture  ground  of  their  cities may not be sold, because  it  is  a possession  to time indefinite for them.     "'And  in  case your  brother  grows  poor and  so he is financially weak alongside you,   you must also sustain him.    As  an  alien  resident  and a settler,  he  must  keep  alive with you.   Do  not  take  interest and  usury  from him,   but   you must  be in fear of your God -- and your  brother  must keep alive with you.   You  must  not give him your money on interest,  and you must not give your food out on usury.     I  am Jehovah your God, who  brought  you  out of  the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to prove  myself your God.    "'And  in   case  your  brother grow  poor alongside you and he has to sell himself to you, you must  not use him  as  a worker in slavish service.    He  should  prove to be with you  like a  hired  laborer,  like a settler.   He  should  serve with you  till the Jubilee  year.    And he must go out from you, he and his sons with him and he must return to his family, and he should return to the  possession of his  forefathers.    For  they  are my slaves whom  I brought out of the land of Egypt. They  must  not sell  themselves  the way a  slave is sold.     You  must not tread (step) down upon him with tyranny (cruel oppressing government, or rule)  and  you must  be in fear of your God.   As  for your slave man  and your slave girl who become yours from the nations that are round about you people, from  them you may buy a slave man and a slave girl.     And  also  from the  sons of  the settlers who are residing  as aliens with you, from  them you may buy, and from their families that are with you whom they  had  born to them in your land--and they must become your possession.   You  you must pass them on as  an inheritance  to  your sons after you to inherit  as  a possession  to time indefinite.   And you  must  pass them  on  as  inheritance  to your sons  after you to inherit as  a  possession to time indefinite.   You may use them as workers,  but upon your brohers the sons of Israel.  And  you must  workers, but upon your brothers the sons of Israel, you  must  not tread, the one  upon the other with tyranny.    

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     "'But  in  case the hand of the alien resident or the settler with you becomes wealthy, and  your brother  has  become poor alongside him and must sell  himself to the alien resident or the settler with you, or to  a member  of the family of the alien resident, after he has sold himself, the right of repurchase  will  continue in his case. One of his brothers may buy him back.    Or  his uncle or the son of his uncle may buy him back, or any blood relative of his flesh, one of his family, may buy him back.   "'Or  if his  own hand has become wealthy,  he must also buy him back.   And he must  reckon (work out) with  his purchaser  from the year he sold himself  to him  till the Jubilee year, and the money of  his  sale  must  correspond with the number of years.  The  way workdays of a hired worker are reckoned  he  should continue with him. If there are yet many years, he should in proportion to them pay his repurchase price over from the money of his purchase.    But  if only a few remain of the years  until the Jubilee year, he must then make a calculation for himself. In proportion to  the years of his he should pay over his repurchase price.     He  should  continue with him  like  a  hired  laborer   from  year to year.  He may not tread  him down  with tyranny  before your eyes.   However, if he cannot buy himself back on these terms,  he must  then  go out in  the year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him.   "'For  to me the  sons  of Israel  are slaves.   They  are  my slaves whom  I  brought out of the land  of  Egypt.   I  am Jehovah your Lord.       26  "'You must not make valueless idols for yourselves, and  you must not set up a carved  image or sacred pillar for yourselves, and you  must not put  a stone  as a showpiece in your land to bow down toward it, for I am God your Lord.     You  should keep my sabbaths and stand in awe of my sanctuary.   I am God.   "'If  you continue walking  in my statutes  and keeping my commandments and you do carry them out, I shall also certainly  give your  showers  of rain  at  their  proper  time, and  the land  will indeed give its yield, and  the tree of the  field  will give  its fruit.  And your  threshing  will  certainly  reach  to your grape gathering, and  the  grape gathering will reach to the sowing of seed-- and you will indeed eat your  bread to  satisfaction  and  dwell in security in your land.   And  I  will put peace in the land, and  you will indeed lie down, with  no one making you tremble -- and I will make injurious wild  beast   cease  out of the land, and  a sword will not pass through your land.   And  you will certainly  chase your enemies, and  they  will indeed  fall  before  you  by the sword.   And  5 of you  will  certainly  chase a 100, and a 100 of you will chase 10,000, and  your enemies will indeed fall  before you by the sword.   "'And  I  will  turn myself  to you  and  make you  fruitful and multiply you, and I  will  carry  out my  covenant with you.   And  you  will  certainly  eat the old of the  proceeding  year, and  you will bring out the old  ahead of the new.   And  I shall certainly put my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul will not abhor (hate, loathe) you.   I  shall indeed walk  in  the midst of you  and  prove myself your God, and you,   on your part,   will prove yourselves 

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       my people.   I am God your Lord, who brought you out of  the land of Egypt  from acting as slaves to them, and I  proceeded to break  the bars of your yoke and make you walk upright and  erect.  "'However,  if you will not listen to  me nor do all these commandments, and if  you will reject my statutes, and  if your souls abhor my judicial decisions  so  as not  to do all my commandments to the extent of  your violating my covenant-- then I, for my part,  shall  do  the following to you,  and in  punishment  I shall  certainly bring upon you disturbance  with tuberculosis (name of disease) and burning  fever causing the eyes to fail and making  the soul pine (loose health) away.    And you  shall  simply sow  your seed for nothing, as your enemies will certainly eat it up.    And  I shall indeed  set  my face against you, and  you will certainly be defeated before your enemies-- and those who  hate you will just tread down upon you (step all over you) and  you will actually flee when no one is pursuing you.  "'If, though, despite these things, you will not listen to me,  I shall then have to chastise (punish. scold, reprimand, admonish) you  7 times as much for your sins.   And I shall have to break the pride  of your strength and make your heavens  like iron and your earth like copper.   And your power will  simply be expended (spent) for nothing, as  your  earth will not give its yield (harvest),  and  the tree of  the earth will not give its fruit.   "'But if you keep walking in opposition to me and not wishing to listen to me,  I shall then have to  inflict  7 time  more  blows  upon you according to your sins.   And  I  will send the wild beasts of the field among you, and  they will certainly  bereave  you  of  children  and cut off your domestic animals and reduce the  number of you, and your roads  will actually be desolated (ruined).  "'Nevertheless, if  with these things you do not let yourselves be corrected by me and you just have  to walk  in opposition to me, I yes,  I shall  then have to  walk in opposition to you -- and I, even I, shall  have  to strike you  7 times for your sins.    And  I shall  certainly  bring  upon you a sword wreaking  vengeance for the covenant -- and  you  will indeed  gather  yourselves into yourselves, into your  cities, and I  shall certainly send  pestilence  into the midst of you, and you must be given into the hand of an enemy.   When  I  have broken for you the rods around which ring shaped loaves are suspended,  10  women will then actually bake your  bread in  but one oven and  give back your bread by weight -- and you must eat but you will not be satisfied.    "'If, however, with  this  you will not listen to me and  you  just must walk in opposition to me, I shall  then have to walk in heated opposition to you, and I, yes, I,  will have to chastise you 7 times for your sins.    So  you will have to eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters, and I will certainly annihilate  your sacred high places and cut off your incense stands, and lay your own carcasses upon the carcasses of your dungy idols--and my soul will simply abhor you.   And  I shall  indeed give your cities to the sword and lay your sanctuaries desolate, and I   shall not smell your restful odors.    And I,  for my part,  will lay the land desolate, and  

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        your  enemies who are  dwelling  in  it will simply stare in   amazement over it.     And  you I shall scatter among the nations, and  I will   unsheathe  a sword after you -- and your  land  must become  a  desolation,  and  your cities will become a desolate ruin.    "'At  that  time the land  will  pay off  its sabbaths  all the days of  its lying desolated, while  you  are in the land of your enemies.           At  that time  the land will keep sabbath, as  it must repay  its sabbaths.    All   the days of   its lying desolated it will  keep sabbath, for  the reason  that it did not keep sabbath  during your sabbaths when  you were  dwelling upon it.   "'As  for those   remaining  among you, I  shall  certainly  bring  timidity into their hearts  in the lands of their enemies -- and  the sound of a leaf driven about will indeed chase them away,  and  they will actually flee as in flight   from a sword   and fall without anyone chasing. And they  will certainly  stumble against one another as if from before a sword without  anyone chasing,  and for you  there will  prove to be no ability to stand in resistance before your enemies.   And you must perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies  must eat you up.      And  as for those remaining among you, they will rot away because of their error  in the  lands  of your  enemies. Yes, even because of the errors of their fathers, with them they will rot away.     And   they will certainly confess their own error and the error of their fathers in their unfaithfulness when  they behaved unfaithfully toward me, yes, even when they walked in opposition to me.    Yet I,  for my part,  proceeded  to  walk in opposition to them, and I had to bring them into the land of their enemies.   "'Perhaps at that time their uncircumcised  heart will be humbled, and at that time they will pay off their error.   And  I shall   indeed remember my covenant with Jacob -- and even my covenant with Isaac and  even  my  covenant  with  Abraham I will remember, and the land I will remember. All the while the land was left abandoned by them and was paying off  its sabbaths  while it  was  lying desolated without them and they  themselves were paying for their error, because, even because, they had rejected my judicial decisions, and their souls  had abhorred my statute.   And yet  for  all this, while  they  continue in the land of their enemies, I  shall certainly  not reject them nor abhor them so as to exterminate them, to violate my covenant with them -- for I am Jehovah their God.    And I will remember in their behalf the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt under the eyes of the nations, in  order to prove myself their God. I am Jehovah.'"   These  are  the regulations and the judicial decisions and the laws that God set between himself and the  sons  of Israel  in Mount Sinai by means of Moses.      27 And God continued to speak to Moses, saying --"Speak to  the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'In case  a  man makes  a special vow offering  of souls to God according to the estimated value, and  the estimated value has to be of a male from 20 years old to 60 years old,  the estimated  value  must  then become 50 shekels (money)  of  silver by the shekel of the holy place. But   if  it is a female, the estimated value must then become  

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       30 shekels  (dollars).    If the age is from 5 years old to 20 years old,  the estimated value of the male then must become is 20 shekels and for the female 10 shekels.    And if the age is  from 1 month to 5 years old, the estimated value of  the male then becomes 5 shekels of silver, and for the female 3 shekels of silver.     "'Now  if the  age is from  60 years old   upward,  if  it  is a male, the estimated value must then become  15 shekels, and for the female 10 shekels.   But  if he  has become too poor for estimated value, he must then stand the person before the priest, and the priest must put a valuation  upon him.    According   to what the vower can afford, the priest will put a valuation upon him.   "'And  if it is a beast such as one presents in  offering to God, everything of what he may give to God will become something holy.     He may not replace it, and he may not exchange it with  good for  bad or  with bad for good.   But  if he should exchange it at all with beast for beast, it itself must then become and what is exchanged for it should   become something holy.      And   if it is any   unclean   beast such as one may not present in offering to God, he  must then stand the beast before the priest.  And the priest  must put a valuation  upon it whether it is good or bad. According to the value estimated by the priest, so it  should become.    But   if he wants to buy it back at all,  he must  then give a 5th of it in addition to the estimated value.   "'Now  in case a man should sanctify  his  house as something holy to God, the priest  must then  make a valuation of it whether it is good or bad.    According  to  what valuation the priest makes of it, so much  it should cost.   But if the sanctifier wants  to buy  his house back, he must then give a 5th of the money of the estimated value in addition to it - and it must become his.   "'And  if it is some of the field of his possession   that a man would sanctify to God, the value  must then be estimated in proportion to its seed -- if  a homer (approx. 100 gallons) of barley seed, then at 50 shekels of silver.     If  he should sanctify  his field  from the year of Jubilee on, it should cost according to the estimated value.   And if it is after the Jubilee that he sanctifies his field,  the priest must then calculate for him the price in proportion to   the years  that are left over until the next year of Jubilee, and   a deduction should be made from the estimated value.   But  if the sanctifier of  it would  at all buy the field back, he must then give a 5th of the money of the estimated value in addition to it, and  it must stand fast  as his.    Now   if he should not buy the field back  but if the field is sold to another man,  it may not be bought back again.    And  the field when it goes out in the Jubilee   must become something holy to God, as  a field that is devoted. The possession of it will become the priest's.    "'And if he sanctifies  to God   a field purchased  by him that  is no part of the field of his possession, the priest  must then calculate for him the amount of the valuation up till the year of Jubilee, and he must give the  estimated value on that day.    It  is something holy to God.   In  the year of  Jubilee the field will  return  to the one from whom he bought it,  to  the one  to whom the possession of the land belongs.  

 

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         "'Now  every value should be estimated in the shekel of the holy place.   The  shekel should amount to 20 gerahs (1 gerah is 1/20 of a shekel). "'Only  the 1stborn among the beasts, which is born  as  the 1stborn for God, no  man should sanctify  it.    Whether  bull or sheep, it belongs to God.     And  if it  is among  the unclean  beasts and the  he must redeem  it  according  to the estimated value, he must  then give a 5th to it in addition  to  it.    But  if  it should not be bought back, it  must  then  be sold according to the estimated value.  "'Only  no sort of devoted thing  that  a  man might  devote to God for destruction  out of  all that is his, whether from mankind  or beasts  or from the field of his possession, may be sold,  and  no sort of devoted thing  may  be bought back.    It  is something most holy to God.     No  devoted  person who might be devoted to destruction from among mankind may be redeemed.   He should be put to death without fail.    "'And every 10th part of the land, out of the seed of the land and  the fruit of the tree, belongs to God.  And if  a  man  wants to buy any of his 10th  part back  at all, he should  give a  5th to it  in addition  to it.   As   for  every  10th part of the herd and flock, everything  that  passes  under the crook,  the  10th  head should become  something holy to God.   He  should  not  examine whether it is good or bad, neither  should he exchange it.   But   if  he would exchange it at all, it itself must then become and what is  exchanged  for it should become something holy.  It  may not be bought back.'"    These  are  the commandments that God gave Moses  as  commands  to the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai. 

 

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1     And God proceeded  to  speak  to  Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in  the tent of meeting on the 1st day of the 2nd month in the 2nd year of their coming out of  the land of Egypt,  and he said--"Take   the  sum of the whole assembly  of the  sons of Israel  according to their families, according  to the house of their fathers, by the number of names, all the males, head by head of them,  from  20 years  old upward, everyone  going  out  to  the army  in Israel.    You  should register   them according  to their armies, you and Aaron.   "'And  some men  should be with you,  one man to a tribe, each   is a head to the house of his fathers.     And  these are the names of the men who will stand with you--of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; of Simeon,    Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; of Judah,    Nahshon the son of Amminadab; of Issachar, Nethanel  the son of Zuar; of Zebulun, Eliab  the son of Helon;of the sons of Joseph of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel  the son of Pedahzur; of Benjamin, Abidan the son of    

Black Ink -- Bible Pages/Text
Blue Ink--Understand & Pray           Numbers 1-36
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 Gideoni -- of Dan, Ahiezer  the son of Ammishaddai; of Asher, Pagiel the son   of Ochran; of Gad, Eliasaph  the sons of Deuel -- of Naphtali, Ahira the sons of Enan.    These are the ones called of the assembly the chieftains of the tribes of their fathers.   They  are the heads of the 1000s of Israel.   So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by names.   And  they congregated  all the assembly  on the 1st day of the 2nd month, that they might have their descent (offspring)  acknowledged as regards their families in the house of their fathers, by number of the names, from 20 years old and  upward,  head by head of them, just  as  God had commanded Moses  -- and proceeded  to register them in the wilderness of Sinai.    And  the  sons of Reuben,  Israel's 1stborn,  their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, came to be by number of their names, head by head of them,  all the males from  20 years old and upward, everyone going out of the army,  those registered of them of the tribe  of Reuben, 46,500.    Of the sons of Simeon,  their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, those registered ones  of his by the number of names,  head by head of them, all the males  from 20 years old upward, everyone going out to  the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.     Of the sons of Gad, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Gad  were 45,650.    Of the sons of  Judah,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Judah  were 74,600.   Of the sons of Issachar, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Issachar were 54,400.    Of sons of  Zebulun,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Zebulun  were 57,400.  Of the sons of Joseph -- of the sons of Ephraim, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Ephraim  were  40,500.   Of the sons of  Manasseh,    their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Manasseh   were  32,200.  Of the sons  of  Benjamin,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward

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  everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Benjamin   were 35,400.   Of the tribe of Dan,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Dan were 62,700.   Of the sons of  Asher, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Asher were 41,500.   Of the sons of  Naphtali, their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, those registered ones of his by the number of names from 20 years and older, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400 --     These are the ones registered, whom Moses registered,  together with Aaron and the chieftains of Israel, 12 men.  They represented  one each house of his fathers.   And all those registered  of the sons of Israel according to the house of their fathers from 20 years old and upward, everyone going out to the army in Israel, came to be, yes all those registered  came to be 603,550.  However the Levites according to the tribe of their fathers did not get registered  in  among them.   Accordingly  God spoke to Moses, saying -- "Only the tribe of Levi  you must not register, and the sum of them you must not take in among the sons of Israel.   And  you yourself appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony and over  all its utensils and  over  everything  that belongs to it.   They themselves  will  carry the tabernacle and all its utensils, and they themselves will minister at it -- and around the tabernacle they are to camp.   And whenever the tabernacle is setting out, the  Levites should take it down -- and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites should set it up -- and any stranger coming near should be put to death.   "And the  sons of Israel  must   encamp each with reference to his camp, and each man by his 3-tribe division  by  their armies.   And the Levites should  encamp  around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that no  indignation (resentment, offense) may arise  against the assembly of the sons of Israel -- and the Levites  must keep the service due to the tabernacle of the testimony."    And the sons of Israel  proceeded  to do according to all that God had commanded Moses.  They did just so.            2   God  now spoke to Moses  and Aaron,  saying -- "The sons  of Israel  should  encamp,  each  man by his  3-tribe  division, by the signs  for the  house  of their fathers.   Round about  in  front of the tent of meeting they should  encamp.   "And  those  camping  eastward toward the  sunrising  will be the 3-tribe  division  of Judah in their armies,  and the chieftain for the sons  of Judah  is Nashon  the son of  Amminadab.   And his army and  the ones  registered of them are -- 74,600.    And those camping alongside him will be the tribes of  tribe of Issachar,  and  the chieftain for the sons of Issachar is Nethanel the son of  

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       Zuar.   And  his army  and his  registered ones  are  54,400.   And  the tribe of Zebulun -- and the chieftain for the sons of Zebulun is Eliab the son of Helon.  And  his army and his  registered ones   are 57,400.    "All  the registered ones of the camp of Judah are 186,400  in their armies.   They should set  out 1st.   "The 3-tribe division of the camp of Reuben will be toward to the south in their armies,  and  the chieftain  for the sons of Reuben is Elizur the son of Shedeur.    All  his army  and his  registered ones  are  46,500.   And  those camping alongside  him  will be the  tribe of Simeon,  and the chieftain  for  the sons of Simeon  is  Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.    And  his  army  and  the ones registered of them are  59,300.    And  tribe of Gad,  and the chieftain for the sons of Gad  is Eliasaph the son of Reuel.   And his army of and the ones registered are  45,650.   "All  the registered  ones of the camp of Reuben  are  151,450  in their armies. They should set out 2nd.    "When  the tent of meeting must set out, the camp of the Levites will be in the middle of the camps.  "Just as they  should encamp, so  they should set out, each one at his place, according to their 3-tribe divisions.   "The 3-tribe division  of the camp of Ephraim  in their armies toward the west,  and the chieftain  for the sons of Ephraim  is Elishama the son of Ammihud.  And  his  army and the  ones  registered  of them  are  40,500.   And  alongside  him will be the tribe of Manasseh, and  the chieftain  for the sons of Manasseh  is Gamaliel  the son of Pedahzur.   And  his  army  and the ones registered  of them  are  32,200.   And the tribe  of Benjamin,  and the chieftain for the sons of Benjamin is Abidan  the son Gideoni.   And  his army  and the ones  registered  of them  are 35,400.   "All   the registered  ones  of the camp of Ephraim are 108,100 in their armies. They should set out 3rd.    "The 3-tribe division of the camp of Dan  will  be toward the north in their armies, and  chieftain for the sons of Dan  is   Ahiezer  the son of Amminshaddai.  And  his  army  and the ones   registered  of them are  62,700.  And  the  ones  camping alongside  him  will  be the tribe of Asher,  and  the chieftain for the sons of Asher is Pagiel  the son of Ochran.   And  his army  and the ones registered ones  of them  are  41,500.    And  the  tribe of  Naphtali -- and the  chieftain of sons of Naphtali  is Ahira  the son of Enan.    And  his  army  and the ones  registered ones  are 53,400.  "All  the registered  ones of  the camp  of Dan are 157,600.   They should set out last -- according to their 3-tribe divisions."    These were  the registered  ones  of the sons of Israel according  to the house of their fathers -- all the registered ones of the camps in their armies were 603,550.  

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        But the Levites did not get registered  in among the sons of Israel, just as God had commanded Moses.   And  the sons of  Israel  proceeded  to  do according  to  all that God had commanded Moses.   That  is the  way  they  encamped in their 3-tribe divisions, and  that  is the  way they set  out, each one  in  his families with regard to the house  of their fathers.          3    Now these were the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that  God spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.   And these were the names of Aaron's sons --  the 1stborn Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.   These  were the names of Aarons' sons, the anointed priests whose hands had been filled with power to act as priests.    However, Nadab and Abihu died before God when they offered  illegitimate fire before God in the wilderness of Sinai -- and they did not come to  have any sons.   But Eleazar and Ithamar  continued to act as priests along with Aaron their father.    And God proceeded to speak to Moses, saying -- "Bring  the tribe of Levi  near,  and  you must stand them before Aaron the priest, and they must minister to him.   And  they  must keep their obligation to him and their  obligation  to all the assembly before the tent of meeting in  discharging  the service of the tabernacle.   And  they must take care of all the utensils of the tent of meeting, even  the obligation  of the sons of Israel  in discharging the service of tabernacle.     And  you must give the Levites to Aaron and his sons.    They are given ones, given to him from the sons of Israel.     And you  should  appoint  Aaron  and his sons, and they must take care of their priesthood --  and any stranger coming  near should be put to death."   And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying -- "As for me, look!  I  do take  the Levites from among the sons of Israel in place of all the   1stborn  opening  the womb  of  the sons of Israel--   and  the Levites must become mine.    For  every 1stborn is mine.  In  the  day that I struck every 1stborn   in  the land of Egypt  I sanctified  to myself every 1stborn in Israel  from man to beast.    They  should become mine. I am God.     And  God spoke further to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying --"Register  the  sons of Levi  according to the house of their fathers by their families.   Every male from  1 month old and  upward  you should register.     And  Moses  began to register them at the order of God, just as he had been commanded.   And  these came to be the sons of Levi by their names --Gershon  and Kohath and Merari.   Now  these were the names of  the sons  of Gershon by their families-- Libni and Shimei.       And  the sons of Kohath   by their families   were Amram and  Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.   And  the sons of Merari  by their families were Mahli and Mushi.   These  were the families of the Levites   according  to the house of their fathers. 

  Of  Gershon  there  were the family  of the Libnites  and the family  of  the Shimeites.    These  were the families of the Gershonites.   Their  registered ones  were by number of all males  from a month and  upward.   Their  registered  ones  were  7,500.  

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         The families  of Gershonites were behind the tabernacle.  They  were encamped to the west.   And  the chieftain  of paternal  house  for the Gershonites  were Eliasaph the son of Lael.   And the obligation of  the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting  was   the tabernacle  and  the tent, its covering   and  the  screen of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the hangings  of the  courtyard  and the screen of the entrance of the courtyard  that is round about the tabernacle and the altar, and  its tent cords, for all its service.    And  of  Kohath   there were families of the Amramites  and  the  family  of  the  Izharites  and the familty of  Hebronites and the family  of the Uzzielites.  These were the families of the  Kohathites.    Among  the number of  all the males from 1 month and  upward  there  were 8,600, taking care of the obligation to the holy place.   The families of sons of Kohath were encamped on the side  of  the tabernacle to  the south. And  the chieftain  of the  paternal  house for the families of Kohathites  was  Elizaphan the son  of Uzziel.   And  their obligation was the Ark and the table and the lampstand and   the altars and utensils of the holy place with which they would minister and the screen, all its service.    And  the chieftain of the chieftains of the Levites was Eleazar  the son of Aaron the priest, who  had  the oversight  of those taking care of the obligation to the holy place.   Of  Merari there were the families of Mahlites and  Mushites.   These were the families of Merari.   And  their  registered ones   by the number of all  the males from 1 month upward  were 6,200.    And  the chieftain of the paternal house for the families of Merari  was Zuriel the son of Abihail.    They were encamped  on the  side of the tabernacle toward the north.     And  the oversight  for  which  the sons of Merari were obligated was over the panel frames of the tabernacle  and  its bars  and  its pillars  and  its socket pedestals  and          all  its utensils and all its service,  and  the pillars of the courtyard round about and their socket pedestals  and their  tent pins and  their  tent cords.     And those camping before the tabernacle toward the east, before  the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, those taking care of the obligation  to the sanctuary as the obligation for the sons of Israel.    And  any stranger  coming near would be put to death.     All  the registered ones  of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron registered  at the  order of  God  by their families,  all the  males  from 1 month  old upward,  were  22,000.     Then God said to Moses -- "Register  all the 1stborn  males  of  the sons of Israel from 1 month old upward,   and  take  the number of  their names.    And  you must take the Levites for me -- I  am God -- in place  of all the   1stborn  among the sons of Israel, and  the  domestic animals  of the Levites  in place of all the 1tborn among domestic  animals  of the sons of Israel."    And  Moses proceeded, just  as  God commanded him, to register all the 1stborn among the sons of Israel.     And  all the 1stborn males by the number of the names from 1 month old upward  of   their registered ones came  

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  to be  22,273.     And  God  continued  to speak  to Moses, saying--"Take the Levites in place of  all the 1stborn  among  the sons of Israel, and  the domestic animals of the Levites in place of their domestic animals -- and the Levites must become mine.   I am God.    And  as  the ransom  price  of the 273  from the  1stborn  of the  sons of Israel, who  are  in  excess of the Levites, you  must  take  5  shekels (money, dollars) for  each individual.   In  the shekel  of  the  holy  place  you should take it.   A  shekel  is a 20 gerahs. (a shekel was "A dollar"  20 gerahs 

= 20 nickels = a shekel = a dollar).  And you must give the money to  Aaron  and his sons as the ransom price of those  who are in excess of them."    So  Moses  took the money of the redemption  price  from those who  were in excess of the ransom price of the Levites.     From the  1stborn of the sons of Israel  he  took the money, a  1,365 shekels, in  the shekel of the holy place.   Then  Moses gave the money of the ransom price  to Aaron  and his sons according to the order of God, just as God had commanded Moses.      4  God now spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying  --"There  will  be a taking of the sum of the sons of Kohath  from  among  the sons of Levi, according  to  their families in the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to  50  years old, all  those  going  into the service  group  to  do the work in the tent of meeting.     "This  is  the service of  the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.   It   is something most holy.    And   Aaron  and his sons must come in when the camp is departing, and they must take down the screening curtain and must cover the ark of the testimony with it.     And  they must put a covering of  sealskins over  it and  spread out an entire  cloth of blue on top and put in its poles.     "And they will spread out a cloth of blue over the table of showbread, and they must put upon it the dishes, and the cups and  the bowls  and  the pitchers  of the drink offering  -- and  the constant bread should continue on it.     And  they  must spread out a cloth of coccus scarlet over them, and  they must cover  it with a covering  of sealskins and put  in its poles.    And they must take a cloth of blue  and cover the lampstand of the luminary and its lamps and its snuffers  and its fire holders  and all its vessels for oil with which they regularly minister to it.     And  they  must put it and all its utensils  into  a covering  of sealskins  and put it upon a bar.    And  over  the golden altar they will spread out a cloth of blue, and they must cover it with a covering of sealskins and put in its poles.     And they must take all the utensils of the ministry  with which they regularly minister in the holy place, and  they  must  put them  in a cloth of blue  and  cover  them with a covering of sealskins  and  put them upon a bar.    "And  they must clear  away  the fatty ashes of the altar  and  spread  out a cloth of wool dyed reddish purple over it.     And  they must  put upon it  all its  utensils  with which they regularly minister at it, the fire holders, the forks and the shovels and  the bowls, all the utensils of the altar -- and  they must spread  out  over it  a covering  of sealskins  and put in its poles.   "And  Aaron and his sons  must finish covering the holy place  and  all the utensils of the  holy place when the camp is departing, and  after that the sons  

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   of Kohath  will come in to carry them, but  they must not touch the holy place  so  that hey have to die.   These things are the load the of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.    "And  the oversight  of  Eleazar  the son of  Aaron the priest is over  the oil  of the luminary  and the  perfumed incense and the constant grain offering  and the anointing oil,  the oversight of  all  the tabernacle  and all that  is in it, namely, the holy place and its utensils."   And  God  spoke further to Moses and Aaron, saying --"Do  not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites  be  cut off from among the Levites. But do this for them that they may indeed keep alive and may not die for  their approaching the most holy things.   Aaron and his sons will come in, and they must assign them each one to his service and to his load.    They  must not come in to see the holy things for the least moment of time, and so they have to die."      Then God spoke to Moses, saying--" There will be a taking of the sum of the sons of Gershon, yes, them by the house of their fathers according to their  families. From 30 years old upward  50  years  you will register them, all who come to  enter  into  the service group  to render  service in the tent of meeting.   This  is the service  of the families of the Gershonites  as to serving and as to carrying.    And  they must carry the tent cloths  of  the tabernacle  and the tent of meeting, its covering  and the sealskin  covering that is on top over it, and the screen of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the hangings of the courtyard and the entrance screen of the gate of the courtyard  that is round about the tabernacle and the altar, and their  tent cords and all their service utensils, and all things with which  work is regularly done.   Thus they must serve.    At  the order  of Aaron  and his sons all the service  of the sons of  the Gershonites  should take place as regards  all their loads  and all their service,  and you  must assign  all their loads  to them  by  obligation.   This is the service  of  the families of the  sons of the Gershonites  in the tent of meeting, and  their obligatory  service is under the hand of  Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.    "As for the sons of Merar'i, you will register  them by their  families in the house their fathers.   From  30 years  old  upward  50  to years you  will register them,  all  who  enter  into the service group to render the service of the tent of meeting.     And  this is their obligation, their load, according  to all  their service in the tent of  meeting -- the  panel frames   of the tabernacle and  its bars  and  its pillars   and its socket pedestals, and the pillars of the courtyard  round about and  their socket pedestals  and their  tent pins  and their tent cords together with all  their  equipment  and all their service.   And  by their names  you  will assign the  equipment  for which they are obligated, as their load.    This  is the service of the families of the sons of Merari   according  to all  their service in the tent of meeting,  under the hand of Ith'amar  the sons of Aaron the priest."   And  Moses and Aaron and the chieftains of the assembly  proceeded  to register  the sons of the Kohathites by their families  and by the  house of their fathers,  from 30 years old  upward  to 50 years,  all  who entered  into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting.   And   the ones registered of them by their families came to be 2,750. These are the registered ones of the families of the Kohathites, all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moss and Aaron registered at the order of God by means of Moses. As for the registered ones of the sons of Gershon by their families and by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old to 50 years, all who entered into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting.   And  the  ones registered  

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    of them  by  their families came to be 2,750.   These are the registered ones of the families of the Kohathites, all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron registered at the order of God  by means of Moses.   As  for the registered  ones of  the sons of Gershon  by their families and  by the house of their fathers, from 30 years  upward  to 50 years,  all  who entered  into the service  group for the service in the tent of meeting,  the  ones registered of them by their families, by the house of their fathers, came   to be 2,630. These were  the registered ones of the families of the sons of Gershon, all  those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron registered  at the order of God.    As  for  the   registered  ones  of their  families  of the sons of Merari by their families, by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to  50 years old,  all  those entering into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting,  the  ones registered of them  by their  families  came to be 3,200.     These  were the registered  ones of  the families  of the  sons of  Merari, whom Moses and Aaron registered at the order of God by means of Moses.   All  the registered ones whom Moses and Aaron  and the chieftains of Israel registered  as Levites by their families and by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to 50 years old, all those coming to render the laborious service and  the service  of carrying  loads in the tent of meeting, their registered ones came to be 8,580.     At  the  order of God they  were  registered by means of Moses, each one according  to his service and his load, and they were registered just as God had commanded  Moses.            And  God  spoke  further  to Moses, saying -- "Command the sons  of Israel  that   they send  out of  the camp every leprous person  and  everyone  having running discharge, and everyone unclean by a deceased soul.   Whether a male or a female you  should send them out.   You should send them outside the camp, that they may not contaminate the camps of those in the midst of whom I am tabernacling."    And the sons of  Israel proceeded to do so,  even  to send them  outside  the camp.    Just  as God had spoken to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.    And  God  continued  speaking to Moses, saying--"Speak  to  the sons of Israel, 'As for a man or a woman, in case  they  do any  of all  the sins  of mankind in committing  an  act of unfaithfulness against God, that soul has also become guilty.   And  they must confess their sin that they have done, and  he  must return the amount of his guilt  in  its principal, also  adding  a 5th to it, and  he must give it to  the one against whom he did wrong.   But  if the latter  has  no  near  relative  to  whom  to return the amount of the guilt, the amount of guilt that is being returned to God belongs to the priest, except  the ram of atonement  with  which  he will  make atonement for him.   "'And every contribution of all the holy  things of the sons of Israel, which they will present  to the priest, should become his.    And  the holy things  of each  one  will remain his own.    Whatever   each  one may  give  to  the priest, that will become his.'"  

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   And  God  went on  to speak to Moses, saying --"Speak  to  the sons of Israel and  you  must say to them -- 'In  case any man's  wife  turns aside  in that she does  commit an act of unfaithfulness  against  him, and  another  man  actually  lies down  with her and has an emission of semen, and it has been hidden from the eyes of her husband and has remained undiscovered, and she, on her part has defiled herself, but there is no witness against her, and she herself has not been caught -- and the spirit of jealousy  has passed upon him, and he has become suspicious of his wife's faithfulness, and she in fact has defiled herself, or  the spirit of jealousy has passed upon him, and he has become suspicious of his wife's faithfulness, but   she in fact has not defiled herself -- then the man must bring his wife  to the priest and bring her offering along with her, a 10th of an ephah (1 ephah is 22 liters so 1/10 of ephah is 2.2 liters)  of barley flour.    He must not pour oil upon it nor pour  frankincense upon it, because it  is a grain offering of jealousy, a  memorial  grain offering  brining  error to remembrance.  "'And the priest  must bring her forward and make her stand before God.   And the priest must take holy water in  an earthenware vessel,  and  the priest will take some of the dust  that happens  to be  on the floor of the tabernacle, and  he must put it in the water.    And  the priest  must  make the  woman  stand  before God  and loosen  the hair  of the woman's head and  put upon her  palms the memorial grain offering, that is, the grain offering of jealousy, and  in the hand of the priest there  should  be the bitter  water that brings a curse.  "'And  the priest must make her swear, and he must say to the woman -- "If no man has lain down  with you  and if  while under your husband you have not turned  aside  in any uncleanness, be  free  of the effect  of this  bitter  water  that brings  a  curse.    But  you in case you have turned aside while under your husband and in case  you  have  defiled yourself and some man has put in you his seminal emission, besides your husband --"   The priest  must now  make the woman  swear  with an oath involving  cursing, and  the  priest must  say to the woman--"May  God  set  you for  a  cursing  and  an  oath  in the midst of your  people  by  God's  letting  your  thigh to  fall away   and your belly swell.     And  this water that brings a  curse must  enter into  your intestines  to  cause your belly to swell  and  the thigh to fall away."   To this  the woman must say--"Amen! Amen!"    "'And  the  priest  must write these cursings in the book  and  must wipe them out into the bitter water. And  he  must make  the woman  drink  the bitter  water that brings  a curse, and  the water that brings a curse must enter into her as something bitter.   And  the priest must take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's  hand  and wave the grain offering to and fro before God, and  he must  bring it near the altar.  And   the priest must  grasp  some of the grain  offering   as  a remembrancer  of it and  must make it smoke upon the altar, and  afterward  he will make the woman drink the water.    When  he has  made her drink the water, it  must also occur  that  if she has defiled herself in that  she committed  an  act of unfaithfulness  toward  her husband,  the water  that brings  a  curse  must  then  enter into her as  something bitter,  and   her belly must swell, and her  thigh must fall away, and  the woman  must  become a cursing   

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      in among   her people.     However,  if the woman has not defiled herself but she is clean, she  must then be free from such punishment; and  she must be made pregnant with semen.     "'This  is the law about jealousy, where  a  woman may  turn aside  while under  her husband, and she does defile herself. or  in  the case  of  a man  where  the  spirit of jealousy  may  pass  upon him,  and he  does  suspect  his wife of unfaithfulness -- and  he  must make  the wife  stand before God, and  the priest  must carry  out toward  her all this law.    And  the  man must be innocent of error, but  that wife will answer for her error.'"       6   And   God  spoke further  to  Moses, saying -- "Speak  to  the sons  of  Israel and you  must  say to them,  'In case a man or a woman takes  a special  vow  to live  as a Nazirite  (separate from God, consecrated to God, abstinate from wine, grow long hair, and not defiling oneself by a presence of a corpse) to God,  he  should  keep away from wine  and  intoxicating liquor.    He   should  not drink  the vinegar  of wine or the vinegar from intoxicating liquor, nor drink  any  liquid  made from grapes, nor  eat grapes  either  fresh or dried.   All  the days of his Naziriteship   he  should not  eat anything  at  all  that  is made  from  the wine vine,  from  the unripe  grapes to the skins.    "'All  the  days   of  the  vow of   his   Naziriteship no razor should  pass  over his head  --  until the days that he should  be separated  to God come to the full, he should prove holy by  letting  the locks  of hair  of his head to  grow.   All   the days  of his  keeping  separate  to God   he may not come   toward  any dead soul.     Not  even for his father or his  mother  or his brother or his  sister may he defile himself when they die, because  the sign  of  his Naziriteship  to his God upon his head.   "' All  the  days of his Nazirteship he is holy to God.    But  in case anyone  dying  should  die  quite  suddenly  alongside him  so  that  he  has  defiled the head of his  Naziriteship, he must then shave  his head in the day of establishing his purification.    On  the 7th day he should shave it.    And  on the 8th day  he should  bring  2 turtledoves or 2 young pigeons  to the priest  to  the entrance of the tent of meeting.     And  the priest must  handle  one  as  a sin offering  and  the other  as a burnt offering and make atonement for him, since  he has sinned because of the dead soul.     Then  he  must sanctify  his head on that day.   And he must live  as  a Nazirite  to God  for the days of his Naziriteship,  and  he must  bring a young ram in its 1st year as a guilt offering -- and  the former  days will  go uncounted because he defiled  his Naziriteship.    "'Now  this  is the law about  the Nazirite -- On  the  day  that  the days  of his Naziriteship  come  to the full,   he  will  be brought  to the entrance of the tent of meeting.     And  he must  present as his offering to God  one sound  young ram  in its 1st year as a burnt offering  and one  sound  female lamb  in its 1st year as a  sin offering  and  one sound  ram  as  a communion sacrifice,  and  a basket  of unfermented ring shaped cakes of fine flour,  moistened  with oil, and  unfermented wafers smeared  with oil,  and  their grain offering and their drink offerings.     And  the  priest must present them before God and  render  up his  sin offering and his burnt offering.     And  he will render up  the ram as a communion sacrifice to God  along  with  the basket of unfermented cakes -- and the  

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     priest must render up  its grain offering and its drink offering.    "'And  the Nazirite  must  shave  the head  of his Naziriteship  at the  entrance of the tent of meeting, and  he  must take the hair of the head of his Naziriteship and put it upon  the  fire that  is under the communion sacrifice.     And  the priest must take a boiled   shoulder  from  the ram  and  one unfermented ring shaped cake out of  the basket, and one unfermented wafer, and put them upon the palms of the Nazirite after  he has  had the sign  of his Naziriteship shaved off.   And the priest must wave them to and fro  as a wave offering   before God.   It  is something  holy for the priest, along  with  the breast of the wave offering, and the leg of the contribution.    And  afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.    "'This  is the  law about   the  Nazirite  who vows -- his  offering to God over  his Naziriteship, besides  that  which he can afford.     According  to his vow  that  he  may make,  so  he should  do because  of  the law of his Naziriteship.'"     Then  God spoke  to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This  is  the way you should  bless  the sons of Israel, saying to them -- "May  God  bless you and keep you.   May  God make  his face shine toward you, and may he favor you.    May God lift up his  face  toward you and assign peace to you"'   And  they must  place my name  upon  the sons of Israel, that  I  myself may bless them.       7   Now about  on the  day  that Moses finished setting up the tabernacle that he proceeded  to anoint it, and to sanctify it, and all its furnishings and  the altar, and all its utensils.    Thus  he anointed them and sanctified them.    Then the chieftains of the Israel, the  heads of the house of their fathers, made a presentation, they  being the  chieftains  of the tribes  and standing  over the ones registered,  and  they  brought their  offering before God,  6  covered wagons and 12 cattle,   1 wagon for 2 chieftains  and  1 bull for each one -- and  they  presented  them before the tabernacle.   At  this God said to Moses -- "Accept  them from them,  as they must serve for carrying  on the service  of the tent of meeting,  and  you  must give them to Levites,   each one in proportion to his own service."    So  Moses  accepted  the wagons   and  the cattle and gave them to the Levites.   2  wagons and  4 cattle  he  gave to the sons of Gershon  in proportion to their service, and  4 wagons  and 8 cattle he gave to the sons of Merari  in proportion to their service,  under  the hand of Ithamar  the son of Aaron the priest.    But  to the sons of  Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy place was upon them.   They  did their carrying on the shoulder.    Now  the chieftains made  their presentation at the inauguration of the altar on the day of its being anointed, and the chieftains proceeded  with presenting their  offering before the altar.    So  God said to Moses--"One chieftain on one day  and  another chieftain  on another day is the way  they  will present their offering for the inauguration of the altar."     Now  the one presenting his offering on the 1st day proved to be Nahshon the son of  Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.   And  his  offering was  one silver dish, its weight  being a 130  shekels,  1 silver   

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     bowl  of 70  shekels  by the shekel  of the holy  place,  both of them full of fine  flour moistened with oil for a grain  offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels,  full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering,  1  kid of  the goats  for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice  2 cattle,  5 rams,  5  he-goats,  5  male lambs  each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Nashon the son of Amminadab.   On the 2nd day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the  chieftain of  Issachar,  made a presentation.  He  presented  as  his  offering  one  silver dish,  its  weight being  a 130  shekels,  one  silver bowl  of 70 shekels  by the shekel of the holy  place,  both  of them  full of  fine flour moistened  with oil  for  a grain  offering -- 1 gold cup of  10 shekels,  full of incense --  1 young bull, 1 ram, 1  male lamb  in its 1st year, for a burnt offering, 1 kid goat of the goats for a sin offering -- and for  a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male  lambs each  1  year old.    This was offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.   On  the 3rd day there was  the chieftain  for the sons  of Zebulun,  Eliab  the son of Helon.  His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being  a 130 shekels,  1 silver  bowl of  70 shekels  by the shekel of the holy place,  both of  them   full of fine flour moistened  with  oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold  cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb   in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.   This was offering of   Eliab  the son of Helon.   On the 4th day  there was the chieftan  for the sons  of Reuben,  Elizur the son  of Shedeur.    His offering  was 1  silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels  by  the shekel  of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour  moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice  2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.      This was offering  of  Elizur  the son of   Shedeur.    On  the 5th day  there was  the chieftian  for the sons  of Simeon,  Shelumiel  the son  of  Zurishaddai.   His   offering  was  1  silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them  full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1  gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of Shelumiel   the son of  Zurishaddai.   On  the 6th day  there was  the chieftain for  the sons  of Gad,  Eliasaph  the son  of Deuel.   His  offering  was  1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels,  

 

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   full of incense, 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.   This was offering of Eliasaph  the  son  of Deuel.   On the 7th day there was  the chieftain  for the son of Ephraim,  Elishama  the son of  Ammihud.    His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of  70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1  gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.     This was offering of Elishama  the son of  Ammihud.    On  the  8th  day  there was the chieftian for the sons of  Manasseh,  Gemaliel the son of Pedahzur.     His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of  Gamaliel  the son  of Pedahzur.    On  the  9th  day  there was the chieftain  for the sons  of  Benjamin,  Abidan  the son of Gideoni.    His  offering was  1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70  shekels  by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of  Abidan  the  son  of Gideoni.   On  the 10th  day there was  the chieftain for the sons  of Dan,  Ahiezer the son  of Ammishaddai.   His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Ahiezer  the  son of Ammishaddai.    On  the 11th  day  there  was the  chieftain  for the sons  of Asher,  Pagiel  the  son  of Ochran.   His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and 

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      for a communion  sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering  of  Pagiel  the  son  of  Ochran.   On the 12th day  there  was  the chieftain  for the sons  of  Naphtali,  Ahira  the son of Enan.   His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Ahira  the son  of Enan.  This  was the inauguration  offering  of  the altar  on the day of its being anointed, on the part of the chieftains of Israel -- 12 silver dishes, 12 silver bowls, 12 gold cups -- 130 shekels  to each silver dish, and 70 to each bowl, all  the silver of  the vessels being  2,400  shekels  by the shekel of the holy place -- the  12 gold cups of the full of incense  being 10 shekels respectively to a cup by the shekel of the holy place-- all the gold of the cups being 120 shekels-- all the cattle for the burnt offering being 12 bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs each 1 year old and their grain offerings, 12  kids of the  goats for a sin offering  --  and  all the cattle of  the  communion sacrifice being  24 bulls, 60 rams, 60   he-goats, 60 male lambs each 1 year old.    This   was the inauguration offering of the altar  after its being anointed.   Now  whenever Moses went  into the tent  of meeting to speak with him.  then  he would hear the voice conversing with him  from above the cover  that was upon the ark of the testimony, from  between  the 2 cherubs -- and he would speak to him.                     8    And God proceeded to talk to Moses, saying --"Speak  to Aaron, and you must say to him, 'Whenever  you light up the lamps, the 7 lamps should shine on the area in front of the lampstand.'"    And  Aaron  began to  do so.    He lit up its lamps for the area in front of the lampstand,   just  as God had commanded Moses.    Now  this was the workmanship  of  the lampstand.     It was hammered work of gold.    Up  to its sides  and up  to its blossoms  it was hammered work.    According  to  the vision that God had shown Moses, so he had made the lampstand.    And  God spoke further to Moses, saying--"Take the Levites from among  the sons of Israel, and you must cleanse them.   And this is what you should do  to  them to cleanse them -- Spatter sin-cleansing  water upon them, and  they must have a razor pass over all their flesh (shave) and must wash  their garments and cleanse themselves.    Then they must take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour moistened  with oil, and  you will take another young bull for a sin offering.   And you  must  present the Levites before  the tent  of meeting  and  congregate  the sons of Israel.   And  you must present the Levites  before  God,  and the sons  of Israel must lay their hands upon the Levites.   And  Aaron must cause Levites to move to and  

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  fro  before God  as  a wave  offering from the sons of Israel, they must serve for carrying on the service of God.  "Then  the Levites  will lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls.    After that, render  up the  one as  a sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering to God to make atonement for the Levites.  And you must have  the Levites  stand before Aaron  and  his sons and  must cause them to move  to and fro  as a wave offering to God.    And you  must separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites must become mine.   And afterward  the Levites will come in to serve at the tent of meeting.   So you must cleanse them  and  cause them to move to and fro as a wave offering.   For they are given ones, given to me from among the sons of Israel.    In  place of those opening all wombs, all the 1stborn of the sons of Israel,   I must take them for myself.    For every firstborn among in the sons of Israel is mine, among man and among  beast.    On the  day of  my striking every   1stborn in the land of Egypt  I sanctified them to myself.    And  I  shall take  the Levites in place of  all the 1stborn  among the sons of Israel.   And  I shall give the Levites as  given ones   to Aaron  and his sons from among the sons of Israel, to carry on  the service of the sons of Israel  in the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that  no plague (sickness) may occur among the sons of Israel  because the sons of Israel approach the holy place."    And Moses and Aaron and   all the assembly of the sons of Israel proceeded to do so to the Levites.   In   accord  with all that God  had commanded Moses as regards  the Levites, that  is the way the sons of Israel did to them.   So  the Levites purified  themselves  and washed their garments,  after  which Aaron caused  them to  move to and fro  as a wave offering before God.   Then Aaron made an  atonement for them to cleanse them.     1st after that the Levites came in to  carry  on their service  in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons.    Just as God had commanded Moses  respecting the Levites, so they did to them.      God now spoke to Moses, saying --"This  is what applies to the Levites -- From 25 years old upward  he  will come to enter  into the company in the service of the tent of meeting.     But  after the age of 50 years  he  will retire from the service company and  serve  no longer.    And  he must minister to his brothers  in the tent of meeting  in taking care of the obligation, but he must render no service.    In  accord  with this  you will  do to the Levites in their obligation."           9    And  God  proceeded  to speak  to  Moses  in the wilderness of Sinai  in  the 2nd year of  their coming out of  the land of Egypt,   in  the 1st month, saying--"Now  the sons  of Israel should  prepare the  passover sacrifice at  its appointed time.    On  the  14th day  in this  month between  the  2 evenings  you  should prepare  it at its appointed time.    According  to all its statutes, and all its regular procedures you should prepare it."    So  Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the passover sacrifice.   Then  they prepared the passover sacrifice in the 1st month, on the 14th day  of the month between the 2 evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai.   According  to  all that God had commanded Moses, so  the  sons of Israel did. 

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    Now   there happened  to be  men who  had  become  unclean  by a human soul  so that  they were not able to  prepare  the passover sacrifice on that day. Hence  they presented  themselves  before Moses and Aaron on that day.   Then those men said to him -- "We are unclean by a human soul.   Why should we be restrained  from presenting  the offering to God at its appointed time in the midst of the sons of Israel?"    At this Moses said to them: "Stand there, and let me hear  what God may command regarding you."   Then God spoke to Moses, saying--"Speak  to the sons of Israel, saying -- 'Although any man of you, or of your generations  should  happen to be unclean by a soul, or off on a  distant journey, he too must prepare the passover sacrifice to God. In the 2nd month, on the 14th day  between the 2 evenings, they should prepare it.    Together  with  unfermented  cakes and bitter greens they should eat it. They must not let any of it remain until morning,  and  they should break no bone in it.   According to the whole statute of the passover they should prepare it.    But  when the man was clean, or did not happen to be off on a journey and neglected to prepare  the passover sacrifice, that soul must then be cut off from his people, because the offering of God  he did not present at its appointed time.     For  his sin that man will answer.   "'And in case an alien resident should be residing with you as an alien, he  also must prepare the passover sacrifice to God.    According  to the statute of the passover and according to its regular procedure is the way he should do.    There should  exist  one statute for you people, both for the alien resident and for the native of the land.'"    Now on the day of setting up the tabernacle the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of the Testimony, but  in the  evening what appeared to be fire continued  over the tabernacle until morning.     That  is the way it went on constantly --  The cloud  would  cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.    And  whenever  the cloud would go up from over the tent, the sons of Israel would pull away right afterward, and  in the place where  the cloud would reside, there is where the sons of Israel would encamp.     At  the order of God the sons of Israel would pull away, and at the order of God they would encamp. All the days  that the cloud  would reside over the tabernacle, they would remain encamped.    And when the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle many days, the sons of Israel  also kept their obligation to God that they should not pull away.    And  sometimes the cloud would continue a few days over the tabernacle.    At the order of God they  would  remain encamped, and at the order of God they would pull away.   And  sometimes  the cloud would continue from evening to morning  -- and  the cloud lifted itself in the morning and they pulled away.   Whether  it was by  day or  by night that the cloud  lifted itself,   they also pulled away.   Whether it was 2 days or 1 month or more days  during which  the cloud  prolonged  its stay over the tabernacle by residing over it,  the  sons of Israel  remained  encamped  and would not pull away,  but when  it lifted  itself they would pull away.    At  the order of God they would encamp,  and   at the order of God they would pull away.   They      

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    kept  their  obligation  to God at the order of God by means of Moses.        10   And  God  proceeded to speak  to Moses,  saying -- "Make  yourself  2 trumpets  of silver.    You  will  make them of hammered work, and  they must be  at your service  for  converting  the assembly  and for breaking up the camps.   And  they must blow on them both, and  the whole assembly must keep their appointment with  you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  And   if they should  blow on just one, the chieftains  as heads of the  1000s  of Israel must also  keep their appointment with you.   "And  you  men must blow a fluctuating (varying) blast, and  the camps of those camping  to the east must pull away.    And you must blow a  fluctuating (varying) blast a second time, and the camps of those camping  to the south must pull away.    They  should blow a  fluctuating (varying) blast for  each time one of them pulls away.    "Now when  calling  the congregation together, you should  blow, but  you  must not sound a  flutuating (varying) blast.    And Aaron's sons, the priests, should blow on the trumpets, and the use of them  must serve as a statute for you men   to time indefinite during your generations.    "And  in case you should  enter into war  in your  land against the  oppressor who is harassing you, you must also sound a war call on the trumpets, and  you  will certainly  be remembered before God  your Lord and be  saved from your enemies.   "And  in  the day of your rejoicing  and  in your festal  seasons  and  at the commencements  of  your months,  you  must  blow on the trumpets  over your burnt offerings  and your communion sacrifices -- and  their  use must serve  as a memorial for you before God your Lord.   I am Jehovah your God."     Now  it came about that  in the 2nd year, in the 2nd month,  on  the 20th day in the month,  the  cloud   lifted  itself  from  over the tabernacle of the Testimony.    And  the sons of Israel  began  to pull  away in the manner  of their departures  from the  wilderness of Sinai, and  the cloud  proceeded  to reside  in the wilderness  of  Paran.    And  they  began pulling  away for the 1st time, according  to the order of  God by means of Moses.    So  the 3-tribe  divisions of the camp of  the sons of Judah pulled  away 1st  of all their armies, and  Nahshon  the  son of  Amminadab  was over its army.    And  over  the  army of the  tribe of the sons of  Issachar there was  Nethanel  the  son of Zuar.    And  over the army of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun  there was  Eliab the son of Helon.   And  the  tabernacle  was taken down, and  the sons of Gershon and  the sons of Merari as  carriers of  the tabernacle pulled away.   And  the 3-tribe  division of the camp  of the Reuben pulled  away in  their armies, and  Elizur  the son of  Shedeur  was over its army.    And  over the  army of the  tribe  of the sons of Simeon  there was Shelumiel  the son of Zurishaddai.   And over the  army of  the tribe of the sons of Gad  there was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.   And  the Kohathites   as  carriers of the sanctuary pulled away, as they  will have  set up the tabernacle by the time of their coming.   And  the 3-tribe division  of the camp of the sons of 

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    Ephraim  pulled  away  in their armies, and Elishama  the son of  Ammihud  was over its army.   And  over the army  of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh there  was Gamaliel  the  son of Pedahzur.   And  over  the army of the tribe of  the sons of Benjamin  there  was Abidan  the son of Gideoni.   And the  3-tribe  division  of the camp  of  the sons of  Dan  pulled  away  as forming  the  rear guard  for  all  the camps in their armies,  and Ahiezer   the son of Ammishaddai  was over its army.   And over the army of  the tribe of  the sons of Asher  there was  Pagiel the  son of Ochran.    And  over the army of the tribe of the sons  of Naphtali  there was Ahira the son of Enan.   In   this manner were the departures of  the sons  of  Israel  in  their  armies when they would pull away.    Then  Moses  said to  Hobab  the  son of Reuel the Midianite,  the father-in-law  of Moses --"We are pulling away for the place about which God said, 'I shall  give it to you.'   Do come with us, and  we shall  certainly do good to you, because God  has spoken good concerning Israel."    But  he  said to him--"I shall not go along, but I  shall  go  to my own  country and to my relatives."    At  this he said --"Please, do  not leave us, because, for the  reason that you  well  know where we  may encamp in the wilderness, you  must serve  as eyes for us.    And  it must occur that  in case  you  should  come with us,  yes, it  must occur that with  what  goodness God  will  do good with us, we, in turn, will do good to you."     So they went marching  from  the mountain of God for a journey of 3 days,  and the ark of God's covenant was marching  before them for a journey  of  3 days  to  search  out a resting-place for them.    And  God's cloud  was  over them by day at  their marching  out from the encampment.    And  it  would occur that when the  Ark would set out, Moses would say--"Do arise, O God, and let  your enemies  be scattered,  and  let those who intensely hate you flee from before you."    And when  it would rest, he would say--"Do return, O God, to the myriads of thousands of Israel."              11   Now  the  people became as men having something  evil to complain about in the  ears of God.      When  God  got to hear it, then his anger grew hot, and a fire of God began to blaze  against them  and  to  consume  some in the extremity of the camp.    When  the  people  began to cry out to Moses,  then  he made  supplication to God,  and  the fire sank down.   And the  name of that place got to be called Taberah, because a  fire  of God  had blazed against them.   And the mixed crowd  that  was in  the midst of them expressed  selfish longing, and  the sons of Israel too began to weep again and say -- "Who  will give us meat to eat?   How  we  remember  the fish that we used to  eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the watermelons  and the leeks  and  the onions and garlic.   But  now our soul  is dried away.    Our  eyes  are on nothing  at all except the manna."    Incidentally, the  manna  was like coriander seed, and its  look  was like  the look of  bdellium gum.   The  people spread  out  and picked it up   and  ground  it in hand mills or pounded  it  in a mortar, and  they boiled  it  in cooking   pots or made it into 

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   round  cakes, and  its  taste proved to  be like the taste of an oiled sweet cake. When the dew descended upon the camp  by night, the manna would descend upon it.    And  Moses got to hear the people  weeping  in  their families, each man at  the entrance of his tent.     And  God's anger  began growing very hot, and in the eyes of Moses  it was bad.    Then  Moses said to God--"Why have you caused  evil  to your  servant, and  why  have I not found favor in your eyes, in placing the load of all  this people upon me?    Have I myself conceived all this people?   Is  it me who has given them birth, so  that you should  say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, just as  the male  nurse carries the suckling, to the soil  about  which you  swore to their  forefathers?     From  where do I have meat to give to all this people?   For  they keep  weeping  to me, saying, 'Do give us meat, and let us eat!'   I  am  not able, I  by myself,  to carry  all this people, because  they are too heavy for me.    So  if this is the way you are doing to me, please kill me off altogether, if  I  have  found favor in your eyes, and let me not look upon my calamity."     In  turn God said to Moses -- "Gather for me 70 men of the older men of Israel, whom  you  know that they  are older men of the people and officers of theirs, and you  must take them to the tent of meeting, and they must station themselves there with you.   And I shall have to come down speak with you there -- and I shall have to take away some of the spirit that is upon you and place it upon them, and they will have to help you in carrying the load of the people that  you may not carry it, just you alone.    And  to the people you should say -- 'Sanctify (purify) yourselves for tomorrow, as you will certainly eat meat, because you have wept in the ears of God, saying, 'Who  will give us  meat to eat, for it was  well with us in Egypt?"  And  God  will  certainly  give you meat, and you will indeed eat.   You will eat, not 1 day  nor 2 days, nor 5 days nor 10 days, nor 20 days, but up to a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils, and  it has become a loathing to you, just because you rejected  God, who is in your midst, and you went weeping before him, saying--"Why is it that we have come out of Egypt?"'"  Then Moses said--"The people in the midst of whom I am are 600,00 men  on foot, and yet you -- you have said, 'Meat I shall give them and they will certainly eat for a month of days'!   Will  flocks  and herds will be slaughtered for them, for  it  to be adequate for them?   Or  will all  the fish  of the sea be caught for them, for  it  to be adequate for them?"   At  this God  said to Moses --"The hand of God is cut short, is it? Now you will see whether what  I say falls upon you or not."     After that Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of God. And  he went gathering 70 men from the older men of the people and proceeded  to have them stand round about the tent. Then God came down  in a cloud and  spoke to him and took away  some of the spirit that was upon him  and put it upon each of the 70 older men.     And it  came about  that as soon as the spirit settled  down upon them, then they proceeded  to act as prophets, but they did not do it again.   Now   there  were 2  of the men remaining in the camp.   The

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    name of  the one was Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad.    And  the spirit began to settle down upon them, as  they  were among  those written down, but they had not gone out to the tent.   So  they proceeded  to act as prophets in the camp.     And a young man  went running and  reporting  to Moses and saying--"Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the camp!"  Then Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his young  manhood on, responded and said --"My lord Moses, restrain them!"   However, Moses said to him --"Are you feeling jealous for me?   No, I wish that all of  God's people were prophets, because God would  put his spirit upon them!"  Later Moses withdrew to the camp, he and the older men of Israel.   And  a wind burst forth  from God and  began driving  quails out of the sea and letting  them fall  above the camp about a day's journey this  way, and about a day's journey that way,  all around the camp, and  about 2 cubits (approx. 3 feet) above the surface of the earth. Then  the people got up  all that day and all night, and all the next day and kept gathering the quail.   The one collecting least gathered 10 homers (approx. 2,200 liters.  1 homer is 220 liters), and they kept spreading them extensively all around the camp for themselves.   The meat was yet between their teeth, before it could be chewed, when God's anger  blazed  against the people, and God began striking  at the people with a very great slaughter. The name of that place  came to  be called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people  who showed selfish craving.    From Kibrothhattaavah  the people pulled away for Hazeroth.             12   Now Miriam and Aaron began  to speak  against Moses on account of the Cushite  wife whom  he had  taken,  because  it was  a Cushite wife  he had taken.   And they kept saying--"Is it just by Moses  alone that God has spoken?"   And  God was listening.   And  the man Moses  was by far the  meekest of all  the  men who were upon the surface of the ground.    Then  God suddenly said to Moses  Aaron and Miriam -- "Go out, the   3 of you, to the tent of meeting."    So the  3 of them went out. After  that God  came down  in the pillar  of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent  and called  Aaron and Miriam.      At  this both of them went out.    And he    went on to say -- "Hear my words, please.   If  there came to be  a prophet  of yours for God,  it  would be in a vision  I would make myself known to him.    In  a dream  I would speak to him.    Not so my servant Moses!    He  is being  entrusted with  all my house. Mouth  to  mouth I  speak to him,   thus showing him,    and not by riddles --  and  the appearance of God is what he beholds.    Why, then, did  you not  fear to speak against my servant, against Moses?"    And  God's anger got to be hot against them, and he went his way. And the cloud turned away from over the tent, and look! Miriam  was struck with leprosy  as white as snow.    Then  Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look! she was struck with leprosy.   Immediately  Aaron said to Moses --"Excuse me, my lord!   Do not, please attribute  to  us the  sin in  which we have acted foolishly  and  which we have committed!"    Please,  do  not let her continue  like someone dead,   whose   

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flesh  at the  time of his coming  out of  his mother's womb is  half   eaten off!" And  Moses began to cry out to God, saying -- "O God, please!   Heal her, please!"   Then  God said to Moses -- "Were  her father to spit  directly in her face, would she not be humiliated 7 days?    Let her be quarantined 7 days outside the camp, and  afterward  let her be received in."    Accordingly  Miriam was  quarantined outside the camp 7 days, and the people did not pull away   Hazeroth and took up camping in the wilderness of Paran.      13  God  now spoke to Moses, saying --"Send out for yourself  men  that they  may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. You will send out one man for each tribe of his fathers, each one a chieftain among them."      So Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran  at the order of God.    All the men were  heads of the sons of Israel. And these are their names-- 

Of the tribes of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur -- 

of the tribes of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori-- 

of the tribes of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh-- 

of the tribes of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph-- 

of the tribes of Ephraim, Hoshea the son Nun--   

 of the tribes of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu-- 

of the tribes of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi-- 

of the tribes of Joseph for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi -- 

of the tribes ofDan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli -- 

of the tribes of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael -- 

of the tribes of  Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi -- 

of the tribes of  Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land.    And   Moses continued  to  call Hoshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.    When Moses was sending  them to spy on the land of Canaan, he proceeded to say to them --"Go  up here into the Negeb, and you must go up into the mountainous region.   And  you must  see what the land is  and  the people  who are  dwelling  on it,   whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many -- and what the land  is in  which they are  dwelling, whether it is good or bad,  and  what the cities are in which they are  dwelling,  whether  it is  in encampments or in fortifications (defense walls),  and what the land is,  whether is is fat or lean,  whether  there are trees in it or not.   And you  must show  yourselves  courageous, and take some of the fruitage of the land.   Now  the days were the days of the 1st  ripe fruits of the grapes. So they went  up and spied  out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob  to the entering in of Hamath.   When  they went  up into the Negeb, they then came to Hebron.   Now Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, those born of Anak, were there.    Incidentally, Hebron had been built 7 years  before Zoan of Egypt. When they came to the torrent valley of Eshcol, they then proceeded to cut down  from there a shoot with one cluster of grapes.     And they went carrying  it with a bar on 2  of the men, and also some of the pomegranates  and some of the figs.   They called that place the torrent valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut down from there. Finally at the end of 40 days  they returned from spying out the land.   So they 

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  walked  and came  to Moses  and  Aaron and  all the  assembly of the  sons of Israel  in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh.   And they  came  bringing  back  word  to them  and  all  the assembly and showing  them  the fruitage  of the land.  And they  went on to report to him and say-- "We  entered  into  the land  to which you sent us out, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and  this is its fruitage.   Nevertheless, the  facts  are  that  the  people  who  dwell  in the  land  are strong, and  the fortified  cities  are very great -- and,  too, those born of Anak  we saw there.   The  Amalekites  are  dwelling  in the land of the Negeb, and the Hittites  and the Jebusites, and  the Amorites  are  dwelling  in  the mountainous region, and the Canaanites are  dwelling  by  the sea and by the side of the Jordan." Then Caleb  tried  to still  the people toward Moses and went on to say -- "Let  us  go up  directly,  and  we  are bound  to  take possession of it, because  we can surely prevail over it."   But   the men who went up  with him said--" We  are  not able to go up  against the people, because they are stronger than we are."   And  they kept  on bringing forth  to the  sons of Israel a bad  report  of the  land that they had spied out, saying-- "The land, which we passed through to spy out, is a  land  that eats up its inhabitants -- and  all  the  people  whom we saw in  the midst of  it are men of extraordinary size.    And  there we saw the Nephilim (giants), the sons of Anak, who are from the Nephilim -- so that we became in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and the same way we became in their eyes"      14   Then  all the  assembly  raised  their voice, and  the people  continued  giving went to their voice and  weeping  all  through that night.   And all the sons of Israel  began  to murmur  against Moses and Aaron, and all the assembly began to say against them-- "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness.   And  why is God bringing us to this land to fall by the sword?    Our  wives and our little ones will become plunder.   Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?"    They  even  went to  saying to one another -- "Let us appoint a head and  let us return to Egypt!"    At this Moses and Aaron fell upon  their faces  before  all the  congregation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.      And  Joshua  the son of Nun  and Caleb  the son of Jephunneh, who  were  of  those who spied out the land, ripped their garments apart, and  they proceeded  to say this to all the assembly of the sons of Israel-- "The  land  that we passed through to spy it out  is a very very good land.   If  God  has  found delight in us, then  he  will  certainly  bring  us into  this land  and give  it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey.   Only  against God do not rebel, and you, do  not fear the  people of the land, for they are bread to us.    Their  shelter  has turned  away from over them, and God is with us.   Do not fear them."   However,  all  the assembly  talked of pelting them  with stones.   And  God's  glory  appeared  on  the tent of meeting  to all the sons of Israel.    Finally  God said to Moses--"How long will this people treat me without respect, and how long will they not put faith in me for all the signs that I performed in among them?   Let  me strike  them with  pestilence  and drive them away, and  let me  make you a nation greater and mightier than they are."   

 

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But   Moses said to God --"Then   the Egyptians  will be bound to hear that you by  your power   have led  this people up   out of their midst.   And they   will be bound to  tell  it to the inhabitants of this land.     They have heard  that you are God in among this people, who has appeared face to face.    You  are God, and your cloud is standing over them,  and  you are going  before them  in the pillar of cloud by day   and in the pillar of fire by night.    Were  you  to put  this  people to death  as one man, then the  nations who have heard of your  fame would certainly say this --'Because of God's  not  being able to bring this  people  into the land about which he swore to them he proceeded to slaughter them in the wilderness.'   And now, please, let your power become great, O God,  just  as  you have spoken, saying--'God, slow to anger  and  abundant in loving-kindness, pardoning error  and transgression (Wrong, sin, offense) but  by no means will he give exemption from punishment, bringing punishment  for the error of the fathers upon sons, upon the 3rd generations, and 4th generation.'    Forgive, please, the error of this people according to the greatness of your loving-kindness, and  just as you have pardoned this people from Egypt onward until now."   Then God said--"I  do forgive according  to your word.   And, on the other hand, as I live, all the earth  will be filled with the glory of God.    But  all the men who have seen my glory  and  my signs  that  I have  performed in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet kept testing  me these 10 times, and have not listened to my  voice, will never see  the land about  which  I swore to their fathers, yes, all those treating  me without respect will not see it.   As  for my servant Caleb, because  a different spirit has proved to be with him and  he kept following wholly after me,  I shall certainly  bring  him  into the  land  where he has gone, and  his offspring will take possession of it.    While the  Amalekites and  the Canaanites  are  dwelling  in the low plain,  you  people make  a turn tomorrow and pull away  to march to  the wilderness  by way of the Red Sea."   And  God  went on to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying --"How  long  will this evil assembly have this murmuring that they are carrying on against me?    I  have  heard the murmurings  of  the sons of Israel  that  they are murmuring against me.    Say to them, '"As I live," is the utterance of God, "if I shall not do  to you just  that way as you have spoken in my ears!"    In  this wilderness your  carcasses will fall, yes, all your registered ones of all  your number  from  20 years old  upward, you who have  murmured  against me.    As  for you, you will  not  enter  into  the land  in which  I lifted  my hand  in oath to reside with you, except  Caleb the son of Jephunneh   and Joshua the son of Nun.   "'"And  your  little ones  who you said  would become plunder, these  also  I shall certainly bring in, and  they will indeed know the land that you have rejected.   But  the  carcasses of  you yourselves will  fall  in this wilderness.    And  your sons  will become shepherds  in the  wilderness 40 years, and  they  will  have to answer for your acts of fornication, until  your carcasses come to their end in the wilderness.   By  the number of the days that you spied out the land, 40 days, a day for a year, a day for  

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  a year, you will answer for your errors 40 years, as you must know what my being estranged means.   "'"I  God  have spoken if this is not what I shall do to all this evil assembly, those who have gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will come to their end, and there they will die. And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who, when they returned, began making whole assembly murmur against him, by bringing forth a bad report against the land, yes, the men bringing forth the bad report about the land will die by evil before God. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh will certainly live on, of those men who went to spy out the land."'"    When  Moses proceeded  to speak these words  to  all the sons of Israel, then the people began to mourn a great deal. Moreover, they got up early in the morning, and tried to go up to the top of the mountain, saying--"Here we are, and we have to go up the place that God mentioned.   For we have sinned.   But Moses said--"Why is it  that you are passing beyond the order of God?   But that will not succeed.   Do not go up, because  God  is not in your midst, that you may  not be defeated before your enemies.   For the  Amalekites, and the Canaanites  are there before you -- and you are certain to  fall by the sword, because, for the  reason  that you turned back  from following God, God  will  not continue with you." However, they presumed  to  go up to  the top of the mountain, but the ark of God's covenant  and Moses  did  not move away from the mist of the camp.   Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were  dwelling  in  that  mountain  came  on down and began striking them and went scattering them as far as Hormah.             15     And  God  spoke further to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons of  Israel, and you must say to them, 'When  you  eventually come  into  the land of your  living  places,  which  I  am giving you,  and  you  must render up  an offering  made  by  fire to God, a  burnt  offering  or  a sacrifice to perform a special  vow or voluntarily  or  during  your seasonal festivals, in  order  to make  a restful odor  to God, from the herd or from the flock -- the  one presenting  his offering  must also present to God a grain offering of fine flour, a 10th of an ephah (1 ephah is 22 liter), moistened  with a 4th of a hin (approx. 1 hin is 3.67 liter) of oil.   And you should  render up  wine  as a drink offering, the 4th of a hin, together  with  the burnt offering  or for the sacrifice of each male lamb.    Or  for  a ram  you should  render  up a grain offering of 2/10 of fine flour, moistened  with a 3rd of a hin of oil.   And you should present wine  as a drink offering, a 3rd of a hin, as a restful odor to God.    "'But  in  case  you  should  render  up  a male of the herd as a  burnt offering or  a  sacrifice  to perform  a  special vow or communion  sacrifices to God, one  must  also present  together with the male of the herd  a grain offering of 3/10 of fine flour, moistened  with  1/2 a  hin of oil.   And you  should  present wine as a drink offering, 1/2 a hin as an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.   This  is  the way  it should  be done for each bull or for each ram  or for one head among  the male lambs or among the goats.  

 

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 Whatever  may be the number  that you may render up,  that is the way you  should do for  each one  according to the number of them. Every native  should  render up these in  this way in  presenting an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.    "'And  in case there should be residing  as an alien with  you  an alien resident  or one who is  in your midst  for generations of you, and  he must  render up an offering made by fire, of  a restful odor to God,  just  as you  should do, so he should do.   You  who are of the congregation  and the alien resident  who is living as an  alien  will have one statute.   It will be a statute to time indefinite  for  your generations.  The alien resident should  prove to be the same as you before God.    There should prove to be one law  and one judicial decision for you and for the alien resident who is residing as an alien with you.'"    And  God went on to speak to Moses --"Speak  to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'On  your coming  into the land where I am bringing you, it  must also occur that when you eat any of the bread of the land, you should make a contribution to God.   You should make a contribution of the 1stfruits  of  your  coarse  meal as ring shaped cakes.   Like the  contribution of  a threshing  floor  is the way you should  contribute  it.    Some of the 1stfruits  of  your coarse meal you should  give  as a contribution  to God  throughout  your generations.   "'Now  in case  you should  make a mistake and not do all  these commandments, which  God  has  spoken  to Moses, all  that God has  commanded you by means  of Moses  from the day that God commanded and onward  for your generations, it  must then occur  that  if it has been done  far from  the eyes of the assembly by mistake, the whole assembly must then render up one young bull a burnt offering  for  a  restful odor  to God, and  its  grain offering and its  drink  offering  according  to the regular procedure, and one  kid of the goats  as a sin offering.   And the priest must make atonement for the whole assembly of the sons of Israel, and it  must  be forgiven them -- because  it was a mistake, and they, for their part, brought as their offering  an  offering  made  by fire to God  and  their sin offering  before God for their mistake.   And it must be forgiven the whole  assembly  of  the sons  of Israel   and the alien  resident who is living as an alien in their midst, because  it was  by mistake on the part of all the people.  "'And  if any  soul should sin by mistake, then he must present a female goat in its first year for a sin offering. The priest must make atonement for the soul who made a mistake by a sin unintentionally before God,  so  as to make atonement for it, and it must be forgiven for him.    As  to the native among  the sons of Israel and the alien resident who is  residing  as an alien resident who is residing as an alien  in their midst, there  should prove to be one law for you as respects  doing something unintentionally.   "'But the soul that does something deliberately, whether  he is a native or an alien resident, he speaking  abusively of God, in  that  case that  soul must be cut off from among his people.   Because  it  is God's word that  he has despised  and  his  commandment  that he has broken, that soul should  be cut off without fail.    His own error is upon him.'"    

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 While the sons of  Israel  were  continuing   in the  wilderness, they once  found  a man  collecting  pieces  of wood  on the sabbath day. Then  those  who  found him  collecting pieces  of wood  brought him up to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly.   So they committed  him into custody, because it  had  not been distinctly  stated what should be done to him.    In time God said to Moses --"Without  fail the man should be put to death, the whole assembly pelting  him with stones outside the camp.    According  the whole assembly  brought  him forth  outside the camp  and pelted  him with stones  so that he died,  just as God had  commanded Moses.    And God went on to say this to Moses--"Speak to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them  that they must make for themselves fringed  edges upon the skirts of  their garments  throughout their generations, and they must put a blue string above the fringed edge of the skirt,   'And  it  must serve as  a fringed edge for you, and you must see it, and remember all the commandments  of God and do them, and you must not go about following  your hearts and your eyes, which you are following in immoral interc*urse (se*).   The purpose is that you may remember and may certainly do all my commandments and  indeed prove  to be holy to your God.   I am God your Lord, who  have brought you out of  the land of Egypt in order to prove myself your God.    I am God your Lord.'"       16  And  Korah the son of Izhar,  the son of Kohath,  the son of Levi,  proceeded to get up, together  with Dathan  and Abiram  the sons of Eliab, and  On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben. And they proceeded to rise up before Moses, they and 250 men of the sons of Israel, chieftains of the assembly, summoned ones of the meeting, men of fame.    So  they congregated  themselves  against Moses and Aaron and said to them--"That  is enough of you, because the whole assembly are  all of them holy and God is in their midst. Why, then, should you lift yourselves up above the congregation of God?"    When Moses got to hear it he at once fell upon his face.  Then he spoke to Korah and to his entire assembly, saying: --"In the morning God will make known who belongs to him and who is holy and who must come near to him, and whoever he may choose will come near to him. Do this --Take fire holders for yourselves, Korah and his entire assembly, and put fire in them, and place incense upon them before God tomorrow, and it must occur that the man whom God will choose, he is the holy one.  That is enough of you, you sons of Levi!"   And Moses  went on to say to Korah --"Listen, please, you sons of Levi.    Is  it such a little thing for you men that the God of Israel has separated you men from the assembly of Israel to present you to  himself to carry on the service of God's  tabernacle and to stand before the assembly to minister to them, and that he should bring you and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you near?   So  must you men also try to secure the priesthood?    For that reason you and all your assembly who are gathering together are against God.   As for Aaron, what is he that you men should murmur against him?"  

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Later Moses  sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said--"We are not going to come up!" Is  it so little a thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing  with milk and honey to put us to death in the wilderness, that  you should also try to  play the prince over us to the limit?    As  it is, you have not brought us into any land flowing with milk and honey, that you may give us an inheritance of field and vineyard.     Is it  the eyes of those  men that you want to bore out? We are not going to come up!"     At  this Moses became very angry and said to God--"Do  not turn to look at their grain offering.  Not one male  ass   have I taken away from them, nor have I harmed one of them."   Then Moses said to Korah--"You and all your assembly, be present before God, you and they and Aaron, tomorrow.     And take each one his fire holder, and you men must put incense upon them and present each one his fire holder before God, 250 fire holders and you and Aaron each his fire holder."    So  they took each one his fire holder and put fire upon them and placed incense upon them  and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting together with Moses and Aaron.    When Korah  got all  the assembly together against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then God's glory appeared to all the assembly.    God  now spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: "Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, that I may exterminate them in an instant."   At this their faces fell and said--"O God, the God of the spirits of every sort of flesh, will just one man sin and you become  indignant (angry) against the entire assembly?" In turn God spoke to Moses, saying--"Speak to the assembly,   saying,  'Get away from around the tabernacles of Korah, Dathan and Abiram!'"   After  that Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and older men of Israel went with him.   Then  he spoke to the assembly, saying  -"Turn aside,  please, from before the tents of these wicked men, and  do not touch anything that belongs to them, that you may not be swept away in all their sin."    Immediately  they got away from before the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out, taking  their stand at the entrance of their tents, together with their wives and  their sons and their little ones.   Then Moses said--"By this you will know that God has sent me to do all these deeds, that it  is not of my own heart.   If  it  is according to the death of all mankind that these people will die, and with the punishment of all mankind that punishment will be brought upon them, then it is not God that has sent me.   But  if it is something created that God will create, and the ground has to open its mouth and swallow up (earthquake)  them  and everything that belongs to them and they have to go down alive into Sheol (hell), you will then know for certain that these men have treated God disrespectfully."   And it came about  that as  soon as  he had finished speaking all these words, the ground  that was under them began to be split apart.     And the earth proceeded to open its mouth and swallow up  them and their households and all humankind  

 

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that belonged to Korah and all the goods.   So down they went, and all who belonged to them, alive into Sheol, and the earth went covering them over, so that  they  perished from the midst of the congregation.    And all the Israelites who were round about them fled at the screaming of them,  for they began to say--"We are afraid that the earth may swallow us up!"    And  a fire came out from God and  proceeded to  consume  the 250 men offering incense.    God now spoke to Moses, saying --"Say to Eleazar   the son of Aaron  the priest that he should take up the fire holders from within the conflagration (firestorm),   'And you scatter the fire over there -- for they are holy,  even the fire holders of these men who sinned against their own souls.   And they must make them into thin metal plates  as  an overlaying  for the altar, because  they presented them before God, so that they became holy -- and they should serve as a sign to the sons of Israel'"   Accordingly Eleazar the priest took the copper fire holders, which  those who had been burned up had presented, and they proceeded to beat them out into an overlaying for the altar, as  a memorial for the sons of Israel, to  the end that no strange man who is not of the offspring of Aaron  should come near  to make  incense  smoke before God, and  no one might become like Korah  and  his assembly, just as God had spoken to him by means of Moses.   And directly the next day the whole assembly of the sons of Israel began to murmur against Moses and Aaron, saying --"You men, you have put God's people to death."   And it was about that when the assembly had congregated themselves together against Moses  and Aaron,  they  then turned toward the tent of meeting -- and, look!   the  cloud covered it,  and God's glory began to appear.   And Moses and Aaron proceeded to come before the tent of meeting.   Then God spoke to Moses, saying -- "You men, rise up from the midst of this assembly, that  I may exterminate them  in an instant.   At this   they fell upon their faces.    After that Moses said to Aaron--"Take the fire holder and put fire from upon the altar in it and put on incense and go to the assembly in a hurry and make atonement for them, because the  indignation  has gone out from the face of God.   The plague (sickness) has started!"    Aaron  at once   took it, just as Moses had spoken, and went running into the midst of the congregation -- and look! the plague  had started among the people.   So he put the incense on and began making atonement for the people.   And he kept standing between the dead and the living.    Eventually the scourge (plague, evil) was stopped.   And  those dead from the scourge amounted to 14,700, aside  from those  dead  on account of Korah.   When at last   Aaron returned to Moses  at the entrance of the tent of meeting, the scourge had been stopped.           17   God  now  spoke to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons  of Israel  and take  from them  one rod (staff) for each paternal house from all their chieftains, by the house of their fathers, 12 rods.  You will write  the name of each one upon his rod.    And Aaron's name you will write upon Levi's  rod,  because there is one  rod for the head of the house of their fathers.    And you must deposit them in the tent of meeting  

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   before  the Testimony, where  I regularly  present myself to you.   And what must occur is that  the man whom I shall choose, his  rod will bud, and I  shall certainly make subside from against  me,  the murmurings of the sons of Israel,  which they are murmuring against you."    So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their chieftains  went giving him a rod  for each chieftain, a rod for each chieftain, by the house of their fathers, 12  rods -- and Aaron's  rod was in among their  rods.   Then  Moses deposited the   rods  before God in the tent of the Testimony.    And it   came  about the next day that when Moses went into the tent of Testimony, look!   Aaron's  rod for the house of  Levi had  budded, and  it was bringing forth  buds and blossoming  flowers and  was bearing ripe almonds.    Moses  then brought out all the  rods  from before God to all the sons of Israel, and  they went looking  and taking each man his own rod.    Subsequently   God said to Moses --"Put Aaron's  rod back before the Testimony  as  something  to  be kept for a sign  to the  sons of rebelliousness,  that  their murmurings may  cease  from against me, that they may not die."   At  once Moses  did  just as God had ordered him.   He did just so.   And  the sons of  Israel  began to say this to Moses --"Now we are bound to expire, we are bound to perish, we are all of us bound to perish.    Anyone  approaching,  coming  near  to God's tabernacle, will die!"   Must  we end  up expiring  that way?"      18   And  God proceeded to say  to Aaron-- "You and your sons and the house of your father  with you  will answer  for error against the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will answer for error against  your priesthood.  And bring near, also,  your  brothers of the tribe of Levi, the clan of your father, with you, that they may be joined to you, and may minister to you, to both of you and  your sons with you, before the tent of the Testimony.   And they  must keep  their obligation  to you  and their obligation to the entire tent.    Only to the utensils of the  holy place  and to  the altar they must not  come  near that they may not die, neither they nor you men.    And they  must be joined to you  and must keep their obligation to the tent of meeting as respects  all the service of the tent, and no stranger may come near to you men.   And you must keep your obligation  to the holy place and your obligation to the altar,  that no further  indignation  may  occur against the sons of Israel.   And I, look!  I have taken your brothers,  the  Levites,  from  the among the sons of Israel, as a gift for you,  as those given  to God  to carry  on the service of the tent of meeting.   And you and your sons  with you  should safeguard your priesthood as  regards every concern of the altar and as regards what is inside the curtain -- and you men  must render service.     As  a service of gift I  shall  give your priesthood, and the stranger drawing near should be put to death."    And  God spoke to further to Aaron--"As for me, look!   I  have given you the custody of the contribution made to me.    Of  all the holy things of the sons of Israel  I have given them to you and  to your sons as a portion, as an allowance to time indefinite. This should become yours out of the most holy things, out  of the offering made by fire, every offering of theirs together  

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 with  every grain  of theirs  and  every sin  offering of theirs  and  every guilt offerings of theirs, which they will return to me.   It   is something most  holy for you and for your sons.   In  a  most holy place  you should eat it.    Every  male should eat it.   It  should become something holy to you.    And  this belongs to you-- the contribution of their gift together with  all the wave offerings  of the sons of Israel.     I  have given them to you  and  your sons and daughters   with you,  as an allowance to time indefinite.    Everyone  clean in your house may eat it.    "All the best of the oil  and all the best of new  wine and grain, and their  1stfruits, which they  will give  to God, I have given them to you.   The 1st  ripe fruits of all that  is on their land, which  they  will  bring to God, yours it should become.   Everyone  clean in your house may eat it.    "Every  devoted thing  in Israel should become yours.   "Everything  opening the womb, of every sort of flesh, which they will present to God, among  man and  beast,  should  become yours.    However,  you should  without fail redeem the 1stborn of mankind -- and the 1stborn of  the unclean  beast   you  should redeem.   And  with  a redemption  price  for  it from a month old  upward you  should  redeem it,  by  the  estimated value,  5 silver  shekels  by the shekel (dollar) of the holy place.   It  is 20 gerahs (1 shekel= 1 dollar = 20 nickels).    Only  the 1stborn  bull or   1stborn  male  lamb  or 1stborn  goat you should  not redeem.   They are something holy.  Their blood you should  sprinkle upon the altar, and  their  fat you should  make  smoke as an offering  made  by fire for a restful odor to God.   And their flesh should become yours.   Like  the breast of the wave offering  and  like the right leg, it should become yours.   All  the holy contributions, which the sons of Israel will contribute to God,  I  have given to you  and  your sons and daughters with you,  as an allowance to time indefinite.    It  is  a covenant  of salt  to  time  indefinite  before  God  for you and your offspring with you."   And God  went on to say to Aaron -- "In their land you will not have an inheritance, and  no share will become yours in their midst.    I am your share and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.    "And to the sons of Levi, look!    I  have given  every  10th part in Israel  as an inheritance in return for their service that they are carrying on, the service of the tent of meeting.    And  the sons of Israel should no more come near to the tent of meeting to incur sin so as to die.   And the  Levites themselves  must carry on their service of the tent of meeting, and they are the ones who should answer for their error.    It  is a statute to time indefinite during your generations  that in the midst of the sons of Israel they should not get possession of an inheritance.    For the 10th part of the sons of Israel, which they will contribute to God as a contribution,  I  have given to the Levites as an inheritance.    That is why I have said to them, 'In  the midst of the sons of Israel they should not get possession of an inheritance.'"      Then God spoke to Moses saying --"And you  should speak  to the Levites, and  you  must say to them, 'You will receive from the sons of  Israel the  10th part  that  I have given to you from them for your inheritance, and you must contribute from it as a contribution to 

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 God a 10th part of the 10th part. It must be reckoned to you as your contribution, like the grain of the threshing floor, and like full produce of the wine or oil press. In this way yourselves also will contribute a contribution to God from all your 10th parts that you will receive from the sons of Israel, and from them you must give the contribution to God to Aaron the priest. From all the gifts to you, you will contribute every sort of contribution to God, of the very best of it, as some holy thing from them. You must say to them--'When you contribute the best of them, then it will certainly be reckoned to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor, and as the produce of the wine or oil press. You must eat it in every place, you and your household, because it is your wages in return for your service in the tent of meeting. You must not incur sin for it when you contribute the best from them, and you must not profane (non religious) the holy things of the sons of Israel, that you may not die.        19   And God proceeded  God proceeded to  speak  to Moses  and  Aaron, saying -- "This  is  a statute of the law  that God has commanded, saying --'Speak  to the sons  of  Israel  that  they should take for you a   sound  red cow  in  which there is  no defect and  upon which  there is no  yoke  has  come.  And  you  must give  it to  Eleazar the priest, and  he must  lead it forth outside the camp,  and  it  must be  slaughtered before him.   Then  Eleazar  the priest must  take  some of its blood  with his finger and spatter some of its blood straight  toward  the front  of  the tent of  meeting 7 times.   And  the  cow must be  burned under his eyes.    Its skin  and its flesh  and  its  blood together  with its  dung  will be burned.   And  the priest  must  take cedarwood and hyssop  and  coccus scarlet material and  throw  it into the midst of the burning of the cow.     And the priest  must  wash  his  garments  and bathe  his flesh in water, and  afterward  he may come into the camp, but the priest must be unclean until the evening.     "'And the  one  who  burned it will wash his garments in water  and  must bathe his flesh in water,  and  he must  be unclean until the evening.     "'And a  clean man  must gather up  the ashes of the cow and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place -- and they  must serve the assembly of the sons of Israel as something to be kept for  the water for cleansing.   It is a sin offering.   And  the one gathering  the  ashes  of the cow must wash his  garments  and be unclean  until the evening.    "'And  it must serve the sons of Israel  and  the alien resident who  is residing  as  an alien  in their midst  as a statute to time indefinite.    Anyone  touching  the corpse of  any human soul must also  be unclean 7 days.     Such  one should purify himself  with it on the 3rd day, and  on the  7th day he will be clean.   But  if he will not purify himself on the 3rd day, then on the 7th day he will not be clean.    Everyone touching a corpse, the  soul of whatever man may die, and who will not purify himself, has defiled  God's tabernacle, and  that soul  must  be cut off from Israel.    Because the water for cleansing   has not been sprinkled upon him,  he continues unclean.    His  uncleanness is still upon him.   "'This  is the law  in case a man should die in a tent -- Everyone  coming into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will  

        

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be unclean 7 days,   And  everyone who on the open field may touch someone  slain  with  the sword  or  a corpse or  a bone of  a man or a burial place  will  be unclean 7 days.    And they must  take for the unclean one some of the dust of the burning of  the sin offering  and put  running water upon it in a vessel.   Then  a clean man  must take  hyssop  and dip it into the water and spatter  it upon the tent and all the vessels  and the souls that  happened  to be there  and  upon the one who touched the bone or the slain one or the corpse or the burial place.   And  the clean  person must spatter it upon  the unclean one on the 3rd day  and  on the 7th day  and must purify  him from sin on the 7th day -- and  he must  wash his garments and bathe in water, and he must be clean in the evening.   "'But the  man  who may be unclean and who will not purify himself, well that soul must be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because  it  is God's sanctuary  that he has defiled.   The water for cleansing  was not sprinkled upon him.     He is unclean.   "'And it must serve as a statute to time indefinite for them, that the one spattering the water for cleansing should wash his garments, also the one touching the water for cleansing.    He will be unclean until the evening.     And  anything the unclean one may touch will be unclean, and the soul who touches  it will be unclean until the evening.           20   And  the sons of Israel, the entire assembly, proceeded  to  come into the wilderness  of  Zin  in the 1st month, and the people took up living in Kadesh.     It  was  there that Miriam died  and  there that she was buried.     Now  there proved to be no water for the assembly,  and they  began  to congregate  themselves against Moses and Aaron.    And the people went  quarreling with  Moses and saying --"If only we had expired when our brothers expired before God!    And  why have you men brought God's congregation into  this wilderness  for us  and our  beasts of burden (animals) to die there?     And why have you  conducted  us  up out  Egypt  to bring us into this evil place?    It    is no place of seed and figs and  vines and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."    Then Moses and Aaron  came from  before  the congregation  to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell upon  their faces,  and  God's  glory began  to appear to them.   Then  God spoke to Moses, said--"Take the  rod  and  call the assembly  together, you and Aaron your brother, and you must speak to the  crag  before  their eyes that it may   indeed give its water -- and you must  bring out water  for them  from the  crag  and  give  the assembly  and  their beasts of burden drink."     So Moses  took the  rod from before God, just  as he had  commanded  him.    After that Moses and Aaron  called the congregation together before the crag, and he proceeded to say to them -- "Hear, now, you rebels!   Is it from this  crag that we shall bring out water for you?"     With  that Moses lifted his hand up and struck the crag  with his  rod  twice --   and much  water began to come out, and the assembly and their animals began to drink.   Later  God said to Moses and Aaron --"Because  you did not show faith  in me to sanctify  

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 me before  the  eyes of the  sons of Israel, therefore  you will not bring this congregation into the land that I shall  certainly give them."    These  are the waters of Meribah, because  the sons of Israel quarreled with God, so that he was sanctified among them.    Subsequently  Moses sent  messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom--  "This  is what your  brother  Israel has said, 'You yourself  well know  all the  hardship  that  has overtaken  us.    And  our fathers proceeded  to go down to Egypt, and  we continued  to  dwell  in Egypt  many days, and  the Egyptians  began doing  harm  to us and our fathers.    Finally we cried out to God and he heard our voice and sent an angel  and brought us out of Egypt --  and here we are in Kadesh, a city at the extremity of your territory. Let us pass, please, through your land.    We shall  not pass through a field or a vineyard, and we shall  not drink  the water of a well.    On the king's road we shall march.    We shall not bend toward the right or the left, until we shall pass through your territory.'"      However, Edom said to him--"You must not pass through me, for  fear  I may  come out with the sword to meet you."    In  turn the sons of Israel said to him--"By the highway we shall go up and if I and my livestock should drink your water, I shall also certainly give the value of it (pay for it). I want nothing more than to pass through on my feet."    Still he said--"You must not pass through."    With  that Edom  came on out to encounter him with a great many people and a strong hand.   So Edom refused to grant Israel to pass through his territory.    Hence   Israel turned away from him.    And  the  sons of Israel, the entire assembly, proceeded to  pull  away from Kadesh  and come to Mount Hor.    Then  God  said  this to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom -- "Aaron will be gathered to his people, for he will not enter into the land that I shall certainly  give to the sons of Israel, on the ground  that  you men rebelled against my  order respecting the waters of Meribath.   Take Aaron and Eleazar his son  and bring them up into the Mount Hor.     And strip Aaron of his garments, and you must clothe with them Eleazar his son -- and Aaron will be gathered  and must die there."   So Moses did just as God had  commanded -- and before the eyes of all the assembly they went climbing Mount Hor.   Then  Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and clothed Eleazar his son with them, after which Aaron died there on the top of the mountain.   And Moses and Eleazar came on down from the mountain.  And all the assembly got to see that Aaron had expired, and all the house of Israel continued weeping for Aaron for 30 days.        21   Now the Canaanite  the  king of Arad, who l dwelt  in the Negeb, got to hear that Israel had come by the way of Atharim, and  he began to fight with Israel and carry away some of them as captives.     Consequently   Israel  made a  vow to God and said--"If you will without fail give this people into my hand, I shall also certainly  devote their cities to destruction."     So God  listened  to Israel's voice and  gave the Canaanites  over  --  and they devoted them  and  their cities to destruction.     Hence  they called  the name of the place  Hormah.      

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    While   they  continued  treking  from Mount Hor  by the way of the Red Sea to  go  around  the land of Edom, the soul  of the people  began tiring out because of the way.   And the people  kept  speaking  against  God and Moses --"Why have  you brought  us up out of Egypt  to  die in the wilderness?    For there  is  no  bread  and no water, and  our soul has come to  abhor  the contemptible bread."    So  God sent  poisonous  serpents  among  the people, and they kept biting the people, so  that  many people of Israel died.    Finally the people came  to Moses and said --"We  have sinned, because  we have spoken  against  God and  against you.    Intercede with God  that  he may remove the serpents from upon us."      And  Moses went pleading in behalf of the people.    Then God said to Moses--"Make  for yourself  a fiery snake and place  it  upon a signal pole.   And  it must occur that when anyone  has been bitten,  he then has to look at it, and to must keep alive.    Moses  at once  made a serpent  of copper  and placed it upon the signal pole, and  it did  occur that if a serpent had bitten a man and he gazed  at the copper serpent, he then kept alive.   After that the sons of Israel  pulled away  and encamped in Oboth. Then they pulled away from Oboth and encamped in Iyeabarim,  in the wilderness that  is  toward the front of Moab, toward  the rising of the sun.     From there they  pulled  away  and  went camping in the torrent valley of Zered. From there they pulled away and went camping in the region of the Arnon, which is in wilderness  that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab,  between Moab  and the Amorites.   That  is why it is said in the book of the Wars of God -- "Vaheb in Suphah  and the torrent valleys  of Arnon, and the mouth of the torrent valleys, which has bent itself toward the seat of Ar  and  has  leaned  against  the border of Moab."    Next from there on to Beer.   This is the well  about  which God said to Moses--"Gather the people, and let me give them water."   At  that  time Israel proceeded  to  sing this song -- "Spring up, O well!   Respond  to it you people! A well, princes dug it!    The nobles  of the people  excavated  it. With a commander's staff, with their own staffs."   Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah.    And from Mattanah on  to Nahaliel, and  from Nahaliel  on to Bamoth.     And from Bamoth on to the valley that is in the field of Moab, at the head of Pisgah, and it projects  over toward  the face of Jeshimon.    Israel now  sent messengers  to Sihon  the king of the Amoirtes, saying--"Let me pass through your land.   We  shall  not turn  off into a field  or vineyard.   We shall    drink water of  no well.    On the King's road  we shall march  until we pass through your territory."    And  Sihon  did not  allow Israel  to pass through his territory, but Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness,  and  came to Jahaz and began fighting with Israel.    At that Israel struck him with the edge of the sword  and took  possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, near the sons of Ammon -- because 

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 Jazer is  the border of the sons of Ammon.    So   Israel  took all these cities, and Israel began  dwelling  in  all the cities  of the Amorites, in  Heshbon and all its dependent towns.    For Heshbon   was the city of Sihon.   He was the king of the Amorites, and it  was he who fought with the king of Moab formerly and went taking all  his land  as far as the  Arnon.    That is  why the sayers of mock verses would say -- "Come to Heshbon.   Let the city of Sihon be built and be proved firmly set up.   For  a fire has come out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon.    It has consumed (burned) Ar of Moab, the owners of the high places of the Arnon.    Woe (sorrow) to you, Moab!    You  will certainly perish, O people of Chemosh!   He will  certainly  give his sons as escaped ones and his daughters in the captivity to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.    So  let us shoot at them.   Heshbon  will certainly perish up to Dibon, and the women up to Nophah, the men up to Medeba.    And  Israel began to  dwell  in the land of Amorites.    Then   Moses sent  some to spy on Jazer.    So they captured its dependent towns   and dispossessed  the Amorites who were there.   After that they turned and went up by the way of Bashan.    At  this Og the king of Bashan came out to meet them,  he  and all his people, to the battle of Edrei.    God now said to Moses --"Do not be afraid of him, for into your hand I shall certainly give him and all his people and his land -- and you must do to him just as you did to Sihon, the  king of the Amorites, who used to  dwell in Heshbon.   So  they went striking  him  and his  sons and all his people, until there was no survivor remaining  to him -- and they went taking possession of the land.         22   Then   the sons of  Israel pulled away  and  encamped on the desert  plains of Moab across the  Jordan from Jericho.   And  Balak the son of  Zippor  got  to  see all  that Israel had  done to the Amorites.    And  Moab became very frightened at the people, because they were many -- and Moab began to feel   sickening  dread  of the sons of Israel.    And  Moab proceeded to say to the older men of Midian--"Now this congregation will   lick up all our surroundings  like the bull licking up the green growth of the field."     And Balak the son of Zippor  was king  of Moab  at that particular time.    He now sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which  is by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call him saying --"Look! A people has come out of Egypt.  Look!   They  have covered the earth as far  as one can see, and they are  dwelling  right in front of me.     And  now do come,  please, do curse this people for me, for  they are mighitier than  I am.     Perhaps  I may be able to strike them  and   I may drive them out of the land -- for I  well know that the one whom you  bless  is a blessed one  and the one whom you curse is cursed."      So  the older men of Moab and  the older men of Midian traveled with the payments for divination (seeking knowledge of the future) in their hands and went to Balaam and spoke to  him Balak's words.    At  that he said to them -- "Lodge  here   

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  tonight and  I shall certainly return you   word just  as God may speak to me."   Accordingly the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.     Then God came to Balaam and said--"Who are these men with you?"   So Balaam  said  to the true   God --  "Balak  the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, 'Look!    The  people who are coming out of Egypt, and they go covering  the earth  as far  as the eye can see, now do come, do execrate (curse, denounce) them for me.    Perhaps  I may  be able to fight against them and I shall  certainly  drive them out.'"    But   God said to Balaam --"You must not go with them.    You must not   curse the people, for they are blessed."     After that Balaam got  up in the morning  and said to the  princes of Balak --"Go to your country, because  God has  refused  to let  me go with you."    So the princes Moab got up and came to Balak and said--"Balaam has refused to come with us."      However, Balak  sent again  other princes in greater number and more honorable  than the former.     In  turn  they came  to  Balaam and said to him--"This is what Balak  the son of Zippor has said, 'Do not be detained, please, from coming to me.     For I shall without fail honor you greatly, and everything  you may say to me  I shall do.    So do come, please.  Do   denounce this people for me.'"     But  Balaam  answered  and said to the servants of Balak--"If Balak were to give  me his house full of silver and gold, I should not be able to pass beyond the order of Lord  my Jehovah, so  as to do something small or great.    And  now you  men also stay here, please, tonight that I may know  what further God  will speak with me."      Then God came to Balaam by night and said to him --"If it is to call you that the men have come,  get up, go with them.   But only the word that  I  shall speak to you is what you may speak."     After that Balaam got up in the morning and saddled  his she-ass  and went with the princes of Moab.    And  the anger  of God began to blaze   because  he was going --  and God's angel  proceeded  to  station himself in the road to resist him.   And  he was riding  upon his  she-ass, and 2 attendants of his were with him.     And the  ass  got to see  God's angel stationed in the road with his drawn sword in his hand --  and the  ass tried  to turn aside  from the road that  she might go into the field, but Balaam  began to  strike  the ass  in order  to turn her  away from the road.    And  God's angel  kept standing  in the narrow way between the vineyards,  with a stone  wall  on this side and a stone wall on that side.    And the  she-ass  kept  seeing God's  angel and began to squeeze herself against the wall and so to squeeze Balaam's foot against the wall -- and   he went beating her some more.     God's  angel  now passed by again and stood in a narrow place, where  there was no  way  to turn aside  to the right or the left.   When  the ass got to see God's angel  she now lay down under Balaam,  so  that Balaam's anger blazed,  and  he kept beating the ass  with this staff.    Finally  God  opened  the mouth of the  ass and  she said to Balaam --"What  have I done to  you  so that you have beaten  me these 3 times?"    At  this Balaam said to the  ass --"It  is  because you have dealt ruthlessly with me.    If  only there  were  a sword in my hand, for  

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  now I should have killed you!"    Then the she-ass said to Balaam --"Am I not your  she-ass  that you  have ridden upon all your  life long until today?  Have   I ever been used   to do  to you this way?"   To which he said, "No!"    And God proceeded to uncover Balaam's eyes, so that he saw God's angel stationed in the road with  his  drawn sword in his hand.      At  once he bowed  low and prostrated     himself on his face. Then God's angel said to him--"Why have you beaten your  she-ass  these 3 times?   Look!  I-I  have  come out to offer resistance, because  your  way has been reckless against my will.   And  the   she-ass got  to  see me  and  tried to turn aside  before  me these 3 times. Supposing  she had  not turned aside  from before me!    For  by now even you I should have killed, but  her  I should have saved alive."    At  this Balaam said to God's angel --"I have sinned, because  I did not know that it was you stationed in the road to meet me.    Now, if  it is bad in your eyes, let me go my way back."     But the God's angel said to Balaam--"Go with the men, and nothing but the word I  shall  speak to  you is  what you may speak."   And Balaam  continued  going  with the princes of Balak.   When  Balak got the hear that Balaam had come, he at once went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the bank of the Arnon, which  is on the extremity of the territory. Then Balak said to Balaam --"Have I not for a fact sent to  you to call you?    Why did you not come to me?     Am  I  not really and truly able to honor you?" At this Balaam said to Balak --"Here  I  have come to you now.   Shall  I be able at  all to  speak something?   The word that God  will place in my mouth is what I shall speak."     So Balaam went with Balak and they came to Kiriathhuzoth. Balak proceeded to sacrifice cattle and sheep and to send some to Balaam and the princes who were with him.   And it came about in the morning that Balak went taking Balaam  and bringing him up to Bamothbaal, that he might see from there the whole of the  people.          23   Then Balaam said to Balak--"Build for me on this spot 7 altars and  make ready for me on this spot 7 bulls and 7 rams."     Balak  immediately  did just as Balaam had spoken.    After that Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.    And  Balaam went on to say to Balak --"Station  yourself  by your burnt offering, and let me go.     Perhaps God will get in touch, and meet with me.   In  that case whatever he will show me, I shall certainly tell you."    So  he went to a bare hill.    When God got in touch with Balaam, he then said to Him--"I set the 7 altars in rows, and I  proceeded to offer up  a bull  and a ram on each altar."    Accordingly  God put word in  the mouth of Balaam  and said --"Return to Balak, and this is what you will speak."     So  he returned to him, and look!   he and all the princes of Moab  were stationed  by his burnt offering.   Then he took up his proverbial (famous) utterance and said --"From Aram Balak the king Moab tried to conduct me, From the mountains of the east -- Do come, do curse Jacob for me.     Yes, do come, do denounce Israel.  

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    How could I  execrate (loathe)  those whom God  has not  execrated?    And how could I  denounce (execrate, curse)  those whom God has not denounced?    For  from the top of the rocks I see them,   And  from the hills I behold them.   There as a people they  keep tabernacling isolated, and among the nations they do not reckon themselves.    Who  has numbered the dust particles of Jacob, And who has counted  the 4th part of Israel?   Let  my soul die the death of the upright  ones.    And  let my end turn out afterward like theirs."    At this Balak said to Balaam--"What have you done to me?   It was in order to  execrate  my enemies  that I took you, and  here you have blessed them to the limit." In turn he answered and said --"It  is not whatever God may put in my mouth that I should take care to speak?"     Then Balak said to him--"Do come, please, with me to another place from which you can see them.    Only the extremity of them you will see, and you will not see all of them.    And  execrate (denounce)  them for me from there."      So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and proceeded to build  7 altars and to offer up a bull  and  a ram on each altar.     After  that he said to Balak--"Station yourself here by your burnt offering, and as for me, let me  get in touch with him there."    Subsequently God  got in touch  with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said--"Return to Balak, and this is what you  will speak."    So  he came to him, and look!    he was stationed  by his burnt offering and the princes of Moab with him.     Then Balak said to him--"What has God spoken?"    At  this he took up his proverbial utterance and said --" Get up, Balak and listen.  Do give ear to me, O son of Zippor.    God  is not a man that he should tell lies,   Neither  a  son of mankind that he should feel regret.    Has  he himself said  it and will he not do it,    And has he spoken and will he not carry it out?   Look!   I have been taken to bless, And He has blessed, and  I shall not reverse it.     He has not looked upon any uncanny (unnatural) power against Jacob,  And no trouble has he seen against Israel.    God his Lord  is with him,   And the loud hailing of a king is in his midst. God is bringing them out of Egypt.  The swift course like that of a wild bull is his.    For there is no unlucky spell against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel.    At this time it may be said respecting Jacob and Israel, 'What has God worked out!'  Behold, a people will get up like a lion,   And  like the lion it will lift itself up.   It  will not  lie down until it may eat prey,  And the blood of slain ones it will drink.   At  this Balak said to Balaam--"If, on the one hand, you cannot execrate  him at all, then,    

 

 

 

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  on the other hand, you should not bless him at all.    In turn Balaam answered and said to Balak --"Did  I not speak to you, saying,  'All  that God will say is what I  shall do'?"    Then  Balak said to Balaam --"O come, please.  Let me take you  to still another place.   Perhaps  it will be right in the eyes of the true God so that you will certainly  execrate  him for me from there."    With that Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which  looks  toward Jeshimon.  Then Balaam said to Balak--"Build for me on this spot 7 altars and make ready for me on this spot 7 bulls and 7 rams."    So  Balak  did just as Balaam had said, and he went offering up a bull and a ram on each  altar.          24   When Balaam got to see that it  was good in the eyes of  God to bless Israel, he did not go away  as at  the other times   to come upon any unlucky omens, but he directed his  face to the wilderness.   When  Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel tabernacling by his tribes, then the spirit of God came to be upon him.   Hence he took up his proverbial utterance and said --"The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, and the utterance of the able-bodied man with the eye unsealed (opened), The utterance of  the one  hearing the sayings of God, who  got to see a vision of Almighty.    While falling  down with the eyes uncovered (opened) --How good looking are your tents,  O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel!    Like torrent valleys they have extended a long way,  like gardens by the river.   Like  aloe plants that God has planted, like cedars by the waters, Water keeps trickling from his 2 leather buckets,  And his seed is by many waters.   His king also will be higher than Agag,   And his kingdom will be lifted up.    God is bringing him out of Egypt -- The swift  course of a wild bull is his.   He  will consume (burn) the nations, his oppressors,  And their bones he will gnaw (chew), and he will break them to pieces with his arrows.   He bowed down, he lay down like the lion,   And like a lion, who dares rouse him?    Those blessing you are the ones blessed,   And those cursing you are the ones cursed."    At that Balak's anger blazed  against Balaam and he clapped his hands, and Balak went on to say to Balaam--"It was to  execrate (loathe) my enemies that I called you, and look!   you have blessed them to the limit these 3 times.   And  now run your way off to your place.   I  had said to myself  I was without fail going to honor you, but, look!   God has held you back from honor."    In turn Balaam said to Balak --"Was it not also to your messengers whom you sent to  me that I spoke, saying,  'If Balak were to give  me his house full of silver and gold, I should not be able to pass beyond the order of God  so as  to do something good or bad out of my own heart.   Whatever God may speak  is what I shall speak'?    And  now  here I am  

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   going away to my people.   Do come, let me advise you what this people will do to our people afterward  in the end of the days."   So  he took up his proverbial (famous) utterance and said --"The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, and the utterance of the able-bodied man with the eye unsealed (open), The utterance of the one hearing the sayings of God,  And the one knowing the knowledge of the Most High --  A vision of  Almighty  he got to see  While falling  down with the eyes  uncovered (opened)-- I  shall  see him, but not now, --  I  shall   behold him, but not near.     A star  will certainly step forth out of Jacob,   And a scepter  will indeed rise out of Israel.    And he will certainly break apart the temples of Moab's head  And the cranium (skull) of all the sons of  tumult (uproar) of war.   And Edom must  become a possession, Yes, Seir must  become  the possession of his enemies, While Israel is displaying his courage.   And  out of Jacob one will go suppressing,   And  he must destroy any survivor from the city.   When he go to see Amalek, he carried further his proverbial utterance and went on to say --"Amalek was the 1st one of the nations,   But his end afterward  will  be even his perishing."   When he got to see the Kenites, he carried further  his proverbial utterance and went to say--"Durable is your  dwelling, and set on the crag (rock) is your  abode (home).   But there will come to be one to burn Kain down.   How long  will it be till Assyria will carry you away captive?'   And  he carried further his proverbial utterance and went on to say--"Woe!  Who will survive when God causes it?  And there will be ships from the coast of Kittim, and they will certainly afflict (trouble, oppress)  Eber.   But he too will eventually perish.    After that Balaam got up and went and returned to his place.   And  Balak also went his own way.       25   Now Israel was  dwelling  in Shittim.    Then  the people started to have immoral relations with the daughters of Moab.    And the women came calling the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people began to eat and to bow down to their gods.     So Israel attached itself to the Baal of Peor -- and the anger of God  began to blaze (burn) against Israel.   Hence God said to Moses--"Take all the head ones of the people, and expose them to God toward the sun, that the burning anger of God may turn back (away) from Israel."   Then Moses said to the judges of Israel --"Each one of  you kill his men who have an attachment with the Baal of Peor."   But look!  a man of the sons of Israel came, and he was  

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   bringing  near to his brothers a Midianite woman before Moses eyes, and before the eyes of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of tent of meeting.     When Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest caught sight of it-- he at once got up from the midst of the assembly, and took a lance (spear) in his hand.   Then he went after the man of Israel  into the vaulted  tent and pierced both of them through--the man of Israel and the woman through her genital parts.   At that the scourge (plague, evil) was stopped  from upon the sons of Israel.  And those who died from the  scourge amounted to 24,000.   Then God spoke to Moses, saying --"Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has turned back my wrath (fury) from upon the sons of Israel  by  his tolerating no rivalry at all toward  me in the midst of them, so  that I have not exterminated the sons of Israel in my insistence on  exclusive (sole) devotion.  For that reason say, 'Here I am giving him my covenant of peace.  And it must serve as the covenant of a priesthood to time indefinite for him and his offspring after him, due to the fact that he tolerated no rivalry toward his God  and proceeded to make atonement (begging for forgiveness) for the sons of Israel.'"   Incidentally the name of the fatally  struck Israelite man  who was fatally struck with the Midianitess was Zimri the son of Salu, a chieftain of a paternal house of the Simeonites.   And  the name of the Midianite woman fatally struck was Cozbi the daughter of Zur -- he was the head one of the clans of a paternal house in Midian.    Later God spoke to Moses, saying --"Let there be a harassing  of the Midianites, and you men must strike them, because they are harassing you with their deeds of cunning  that they committed   against you  cunningly in the affair of Peor and in the affair of Cozbi the daughter of a chieftain of Midian, their sister who was fatally struck in the day of the scourge over the affair of Peor.      26  And  it came about after the scourge (affliction, bane), that Jehovah went on to say this to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest --"Take the sum of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel from   20 years of age and upward, according to the house of their fathers, all those going out to the army in Israel."     And  Moses and Eleazar the priest proceeded to speak with them in the desert plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying -- "Take the sum  of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel from 20 years of age and upward, just  as God had commanded Moses.   Now the sons of Israel  who went out of the land of Egypt were -- Reuben, Israel's 1stborn, Reuben's sons-- 

of Hanoch the family of the Hanochites-- 

of Pallu the family of the  Pallusites-- 

of Hezron the family of the  Hezronites-- 

of Carmi the family of the Carmites  -- These were the families of Reubenites, and their registered ones amounted to 43,730.    And  the son of Pallu was Eliab. The sons of Eliab -- Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram.  This Dathan and Abiram were summoned ones of assembly, who  engaged in  a struggle against  Moses and Aaron in the assembly of Korah, when they engaged in a struggle against God.   Then the earth opened  its mouth and swallowed them up.  

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 As for Korah, he died  at the death  of the assembly when the fire  consumed (burned)   250 men.   And they came to be a symbol.      However, the sons of Korah did not die.    The sons of Simeon by their families-- 

Of Nemuel the family of the Neumelites-- 

of Jamin the family of the Jaminites-- 

of Jachin the family of the Jachinites-- 

of Jerah  the family of the Jerahites-- 

of Shaul the family of the Shaulites.  These were the families of the Simeonites  --22,200. 

Sons of Gad by their families -- 

of Zephon the family of the Zephonites-- 

of Haggi   the family of the Haggites-- 

of Shunni the family of the Shunites-- 

of Ozni the family of the Oznites-- 

Of Eri the family of the  Erites-- 

of Arod the family of the  Arodites-- 

of Areli the family of the Arelites-- These were the 

families of the sons of Gad, of their registered ones, 40,500. 

The sons of Judah were Er and Onan.   However, Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.   And the sons of Judah came to be, by their families-- 

Of Shelah the family of the Shelanites-- 

of Perez  the family of the Perezites-- 

of Zerah the family of the Zerahites-- 

And the sons of Perez came to be -- 

Of Hezron the family of the Hezronites--  

of Hamul the family of the Hamulites --  

 These were the families of Judah, of their registered ones--76,500. 

The sons of Issachar by their families were-- 

Of Tola the family of the Tolaites-- 

of Puvah the family of the Punites-- 

of Jashub  the family of the Jashubites-- 

of Shimron the family of Shimronites--  

 These were the families of Issachar, of their registered ones--64,300. 

The sons of Zebulun by their families were-- 

Of Sered the family of the Seredites-- 

of Elon  the family of the Elonites-- 

of Jahleel the family of the Jahleelites--  

 These were the families of Zebulunites, of their registered ones--60,500. 

The sons of Joseph by their families were Manasseh and Ephraim. 

The sons of Manasseh were-- 

Of Machir the family of the Machirites.  

 And Machir became father to Gilead. 

Of Gilead the family of the Gileadites.  

 These were the sons of Gilead-- 

Of Iezer the family of the Iezerites-- 

of Helek  the family of the Helekites- 

of Asriel  the family of the Asrielites-- 

of Shechem  the family of the Shechemites-- 

of Hepher the family of the Hepherites-- 

Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher proved to have no sons, but daughters,  and  the names of  daughters of  Zelophehad were Mahlah  and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.   These were the families of Manasseh, and their registered ones were 52,700. 

These  were the sons of Ephraim by their families-- 

Of Shuthelah the family of the Shuthelahites-- 

of Becher the family of the Becherites-- 

of Tahan  the family of the Tahanites-- 

And these were the sons of Shuthelah-- 

Of Eran the family of the Eranites.  

 These were the families of the sons of Ephraim, of their registered ones--32,500.   These were the sons of Joseph by their families. 

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the sons of Benjamin by their families were-- 

Of Bela the family of the Belaites-- 

of Ashbel the family of the  Ashbelites-- 

of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramites- 

of Shephupham  the family of the Shuphamites-- 

of Hupham the family of theHuphamites-- 

The sons of Bela came to be Ard and Naaman-- 

Of Ard the family of the Ardites--  

of Naaman the family of the Naamites.  

These were the sons of Benjamin by their families, and their registered ones were 45,600. 

These were the sons of Dan by their families: 

Of Shuham the family of the Shuhamiters.  

These were the families of Dan by their families.  

All the families of the Shuhamites,  

of their registered ones were 64,400. 

The sons of Asher by their families were -- 

Of Imnah the family of the Imnites-- 

of Ishvi the family of the  Ishvites-- 

of Beriah the family of the  Beriites-- 

of the sons of Beriah-- 

Of Heber the family of the Heberites-- 

of Malchiel the family of the Malchielites. 

 And the name of the Asher's daughter was Serah.  

These were the families of the sons of Asher,  

of their registered ones--53,400. 

The sons of Naphtali by their families were-- 

Of  Jahzeel the family of the Jahzeelites -- 

of Guni  the family of the  Gunites-- 

of Jezer  the family of the Jezerites-- 

of Shillem the family of the Shillemites.  

These were the  families of Naphtali by their families,  

and their registered ones were 45,400. 

These were the registered ones of the sons of Israel--601,730. 

After that God spoke to Moses, said--"To these the land should be  apportioned  for an inheritance  by the number of the names.   According to the great number  you should   increase one's inheritance, and according to the fewness--you should reduce one's inheritance.   Each  one's inheritance  should be given in  proportion to his registered ones.   Only by the lot  should the land be apportioned.    According  to the names of the tribes of their fathers they should get an inheritance.   By  the determination of the lot one's inheritance should be apportioned between  the many and the few."  

Now these were the registered ones of the Levites by their families-- 

Of Gershon the family of the Gershonites-- 

of Kohath  the family of the Kohathites-- 

of Merari the family of the Merarites.  

These were the families of Levites. the family of Libnites,  

the family of Hebronites,  

the family of the Mahlites,  

the family of the Mushites,  

the family of Korahites.  

And Kohath became father to Amran.   

And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, Levi's daughter, whom  his wife bore  to Levi  in Egypt.    In  time  she   bore to Amram  Aaron, Moses and Miriam their sister.    Then  there were born to Aaron -- Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.   But Nadab and Abihu died  for their  presenting  illegimate fire before God.    And  their  registered ones amounted to 23,000,   all males from a  month old and  upward.    For they   did not get registered  in among the sons of Israel, because no inheritance  

 

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  was  to  be given to  them  in among the sons of Israel.   These  were  the ones registered  by Moses  and Eleazar  the priest when  they registered  the sons of Israel  in the desert  plains of Moab  the Jordan at Jericho.   But  among these there did not prove to be a man of those registered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they registered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.    For God had said concerning them --"They  will die without fail in the wilderness." So  there was  not left of  them a man, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.        27    Then the daughters of Zelophehad  the son of Hepher  the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near.    These were the names of his daughters Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.     And  they proceeded to  stand  before  Moses and  before the chieftains  and all the assembly at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying--"Our father  has died in the wilderness, and yet  he  did not prove to be in among the assembly, that is,  those who ranged  themselves  against  God in the assembly of Korah, but for his own  sin he has died, and he did not get to have any sons.   Why should the name of our father be taken  away  from the midst of his  family because he had no son?    O give  us a  possession  in the  midst of our father's brothers."   At that Moses presented their case before God.   God then said this to Moses--"The daughters of Zelophehad   are speaking right.     By all means you should give them the possession of  an inheritance  in the midst of their father's brothers, and you  must cause  their father's  inheritance  to pass to them.    And to the sons of Israel you should speak, saying,  'In  case  any man should die  without having a son, you must then cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.      But if he has no daughter, then you must give the inheritance to his brothers.   A nd if he  has  no brothers then he must give inheritance to his father's brothers (uncles).    But  if his  father has no brothers then give inheritance to his blood relation  who is closest  to him of his family, and he must take possession of it.   And it must serve as a statute (regulation) by judicial  decision  for the sons of Israel, just as God has commanded Moses.'" Subsequently God said to Moses--"Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I shall certainly  give the sons of Israel.    When you have seen it, then you must be gathered  to your people, yes, you, just as Aaron your brother was gathered, inasmuch as you men rebelled   against my order in the wilderness of Zin   at the quarreling of the assembly, in  relation to sanctifying me  by the waters before their eyes.     These  are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh  in the widerness of Zin."    Then  Moses spoke to God, saying--"Let God the Lord of the spirits of all sorts of flesh appoint over the assembly   a man who  will  go out before them  and  who will  come in before them, and who will bring them out, and who will bring them in, that  God's assembly may not become like sheep that have no shepherd."     So  God said to Moses -- "Take for yourself Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom there  

   

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    is  spirit, and you must lay your hand upon him, and you must stand him before Eleazar the priest and before all the assembly, and you must commission him before their eyes.    You must put some  of your dignity upon him, in order  that all the assembly  of the sons of Israel may listen to him.    And it is before Eleazar the priest that he will stand, and he must inquire in his behalf   by the judgment   of the Urim before God.    At  his order  they will go out and at his order they will come in,  he  and  all the sons of Israel with him and all the assembly."    And  Moses proceeded  to do just as God had commanded him.     Accordingly   he took  Joshua  and stood him before Eleazar  the priest and before all the assembly   and  laid his hands upon him and commissioned him, just as God had spoken by means of Moses.        28     And God  spoke  further to Moses, saying -- "Command the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'You  should  take care  to present  it  to me my offering, my bread, for my offering made  by  fire as  a restful odor to me, at their appointed times.'    "And  you must say to them,  'This  is the offering made by fire  that you will present to God -- 2  sound  year- old male  lambs  a day as a burnt offering constantly.   The 1 male lamb you will render up in the morning, and the other  male  lamb you  will render up  between the 2 evenings, together with the 10th of an ephah (1/10 of 22 liter is 2.2 liter) of fine flour as a grain offering moistened   with the 4th of a hin (1 hin is 3.67 liter so 1/4 of a hin is 0.92 liter = Approx. 4 cups) of beaten oil -- the constant burnt offering  which  was rendered up at Mount Sinai  as a restful odor, an  offering  made by fire to God, along  with its drink offering, the 4th of a hin to each male lamb.    Pour  out in the  holy place the drink offering of  intoxicating liquor to God.    And you  will render up the other male lamb  between the 2 evenings.    With  the same grain offering as of the morning  and with its same  drink offering  you will render it up as an offering made by fire, of  a restful odor to God.   "'However, on  the sabbath day there will  be 2  sound  year old male lambs  and  two  10th measures  of fine flour as a grain offering  moistened with oil, together with its drink offering, as a  sabbath  burnt offering  on its sabbath, along  with  the constant burnt offering   and its drink offering.    "'And at  the commencements  of your months  you people  will  present  as a burnt offering  to God  2  young bulls and 1 ram, 7  sound  male lambs  each 1 year old,  and  three 10th measures of fine flour as a grain offering  moistened with oil for each bull  and two 10th measures of fine flour  as a  grain offering  moistened  with oil for the one ram, and a  10th measure of fine flour  respectively as  a grain offering moistened with oil for  each male lamb, as a burnt offering, a restful odor, an offering made by fire to God.    As  their drink  offerings there should go 1/2 a hin (11. liter) of wine for a bull, and a 1/3 of hin (approx. 7.33 liter) or the ram and a 4th of hin (approx. 0.92 liter)  for a male lamb.   This  is the monthly burnt offering in its month of the months of the year.    Also, 1  kid  of the  goat  should be rendered  up as  a sin offering  to God  in addition  to the constant burnt offering  together  with its drink offering.     "'And  in  the 1st month, on  the 14th day of the  

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 month,  will be God's passover.    And  on the 15th  day  of this  month will be a festival.     7  days unfermented cakes will be eaten.   On  the 1st  day there will be a holy convention.   No  sort of  laborious  work must you do.   And  you must present  as an offering made  by fire, a  burnt  offering  to God,  2  young bulls  and  1 ram  and  7 male  lambs  each a year old.    They  should prove to be  sound  ones for you.    And  as  their grain offerings  of  fine flour  moistened  with oil  you will  render  up three 10th measures for a bull  and two  10th measures for the ram.   You  will   render up a 10th measure respectively  for  each male  lamb of the 7 male lambs -- and 1 goat  of sin offering  to  make atonement for you.    Aside  from  the morning burnt offering, which  is for the constant burnt offering,  you  will  render these up. The same  as  these you  will render  up daily  for the 7 days as bread, an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.    Along  with  the constant burnt offering  it  should be rendered,  and its drink offering.    And  on the 7th day you should hold  a holy convention.    No  sort of  laborious  work must you do.   "'And  on the day  of the 1st ripe fruits, when  you  present  a new grain offering to God, in  your feast of  weeks  you should  hold a holy convention.  No  sort  of laborious work must you do.   And you  must present as a burnt offering for  a restful odor to God   2 young bulls, 1 ram, 7 male  lambs each 1 year old  and  as their  grain offering  of fine  flour moistened with oil three 10th measures  for each bull, two 10th measures for the one ram. a 10th measure respectively  for each male lamb of  the  7 male lambs, 1  kid of the  goat  to make atonement for you.     Aside  from  the constant burnt offering and  its  grain  offering  you will  render them up.    They  should  prove to be  sound  ones for you, together with their drink offerings.            29   "'And  in the 7th month, on the 1st day of the month, you should hold a holy convention.   No  sort of   laborious work must you do.   It  should  prove  to  be a day of the trumpet blast for you.    And you  must render  up  as a burnt  offering  for a restful  odor to God   1  young bull, 1 ram,  7  male lambs  each  1 year old,   sound  ones,  and  their grain  offering  of fine  flour moistened  with oil, three 10th measures  for the bull,   two  10th measures for the ram,  and  one 10th measure  for  each male  lamb  of the  7 male lambs -- and  1 male  kid of the  goats  as  a  sin offering  to  make atonement for you,  aside  from  the monthly burnt offering   and  its grain offering  and the constant  burnt offering   and  its grain offering, together  with  their drink offerings, according  to  the regular procedure for them,  as  a restful odor, an  offering  made  by fire to God.     "'And  on the 10th of this 7th  month  you  should  hold a holy convention, and you must  afflict  your souls.     No   sort of work must you do.   And  you must present   as  a burnt  offering to God, as a restful odor,  1 young bull,  1 ram,   7 male lambs  each 1 year old.    They  should  prove to be  sound  ones  for you. And  as  their grain  offering  of  fine flour moistened with oil   three   10th measures   for the bull,   two  10th measures for the 1 ram,  a  10th measures respectively for each male  

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lamb of the 7 male lambs -- 1  kid of  the goats  as a  sin  offering  aside from the sin offering of atonement    and   the constant  burnt offering  and  its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.     "'And  on  the  15th day of the 7th month  you  should  hold  a  holy convention.    No  sort of  laborious  work must you do, and  you must  celebrate a festival to God  7 days.   And  you must present  as  a  burnt offering, an  offering made by fire, of  a restful  odor to God,  13  young bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs each 1 year old.    They should prove to be  sound  ones.    And as their  grain  offering  of fine flour moistened with oil three 10th measures  for  each  bull of the   13 bulls,  two 10th measures for each ram of the 2 rams,  and a 10th measure for each male lamb of the 14 male lambs,   and  1   kid  of the  goats  as  a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering, its  grain offering and  its drink offering.     "'And  on the 2nd day   12 young bulls,  2 rams, 14 male  lambs each 1 year old,  sound   ones --  and their grain offering  and  their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure, and  1 kid of the goats  as a sin offering, aside from  the constant burnt offering  and its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.    "'And on  the 3rd day  11 bulls,   2 rams,   14 male lambs  each 1 year old,  sound  ones--  and their grain offering  and  their drink offerings  for the bulls, the rams  and the male lambs  by their number  according  to the  regular procedure -- and one goat as a sin offering,  aside from  the constant  burnt offering, and  its grain offering and drink offering.     "'And  on the 4th day-- 10 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs each 1 year old,  sound (healthy) ones -- their  grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and the male lambs by  their number according to the regular procedure, and 1 kid (young) goats as a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.    "And on  the 5th day--9 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs  each 1 year old,  sound  ones, their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and  the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure, and  1 goat as  a  sin offering, aside from the constant burnt  offering, and  its grain offering  and its drink offering.   "'And  on the 6th day -- 8 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs  each 1 year old, healthy ones, and  their  grain  offering  and  their  drink offerings  for the bulls, the rams and the  male  lambs  by their  number according  to the regular procedure, and 1 goat as a sin offering,  aside  from the constant burnt offering, its  grain offering and  its drink offerings.    "'And  on the 7th day-- 7 bulls, 2 rams,  14  male  lambs, each 1 year old,  sound  ones, and  their grain offering and  their  drink  offerings  for the bulls, the  rams  and the male lambs by their number  according  to  the regular  procedure for them, and  one  goat as a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering,  its  grain  offering  and its drink offering,     "'And  on  the 8th  day you  should  hold  a solemn assembly. No  sort  of  laborineous  work  

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must  you  do.   And  you must present as a burnt  offering,  an offering  made by fire,  of a restful  odor  to God, one bull, one ram,  7 male lambs each a year old,  sound ones,  and their grain  offering  and their  drink offerings  for the bull,   the ram  and the male  lambs  by their  number according  to the  regular procedure --  and one  goat  as  a sin offering,  aside from  the constant  burnt offering  and its grain  offering  and its drink  offering.  "'These  you will render up to God at your  seasonal  festivals,  besides your vow  offerings and your voluntary  offerings as your burnt offerings  and your  grain offerings and your drink  offerings  and your  communion  sacrifices.'"   And  Moses  proceeded  to  talk  to the sons of Israel  according  to everything  that God  had  commanded  Moses.         30   Then  Moses  spoke  to  the  heads  of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying -- "This  is  the word  that  God  has commanded -- In  case  a  man makes  a vow  to  God  or swears an  oath  to bind a vow  of  abstinence  upon  his soul,  he  must  not violate his  word.  According  to all  that  has  gone out of his mouth he should do.    In  case a woman  makes  a  vow  to God or she does  bind  herself with a  vow of abstinence  in the house of  her father in her youth,  and her father actually  hears  her vow  or her abstinence vow  that  she has  bound upon  her  soul and her  father does  keep silent toward her,  all  her vows  must also stand,  and  vows must stand,  and every  abstinence vow  that  she  has  bound  upon  her soul  will  stand.    But  if  her  husband  on  the day  of hearing  it forbids  her,  he  has  also  father  has  forbidden  her  on  the day of his  hearing  all her vows  or  her  abstinence vows  that she has  bound  upon  her soul, it will not stand, but  God will  forgive her,  and  because  her  father   forbade  her.    "However, if  she at all happens  to  belong  to  a husband,  and her vow  is upon  her or  the thoughtless promise  of  her  lips that she has  bound  upon  her soul,  and  her  husband  actually  hears it  and keeps silent  toward her on the day of  his hearing it, her vows  must  also stand or  her abstinence  vows  that she  has bound upon her soul will stand.    But  if her husband  on the day  of  hearing  it forbids her,  he has also annulled (legally invalid)  her vow  that  was upon her  or the thoughtless  promise of her lips that  she bound upon her soul, and   God will forgive her.    "In  the  case of the  vow   of a widow or a divorced woman, everything  that  she has bound  upon  her soul  will stand against her.    "However,  if  it is  in the house of her  husband  that she has vowed  or  has bound an abstinence vow upon her soul by an oath, and her husband  has heard it  and  has kept  silent toward her, he  has not forbidden her -- and all her vows must stand  or  any abstinence  vow that  she has bound upon her soul will stand.    But   if  her husband  has  totally  annulled them on the day of  his hearing  any  expression of her lips  as  her vows or as an abstinence  vow of her soul, they will not stand.    Her  husband  has annulled them,  and  God will forgive her.      Any  vow or any  oath of an abstinence vow to  afflict  the soul,  her  husband should establish  it  or  her husband should annul it.   But   if  her husband   absolutely  keeps silent  toward  her from day to day,  he has  also  established  all her  vows  or  all her abstinence vows that are upon her.       He  has  established  them because  he kept  silent toward her on the day  

 

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of his hearing them.   And  if  he totally  annuls  them  after his hearing them-- he actually bears her error.    " These  are the regulations that God commanded Moses   as  between a  husband  and his wife, as  between  a father and  his daughter  in her   youth in the house of her father."           31   God then spoke to Moses, saying --"Take  vengeance  for the sons of Israel  upon the Midianites.   Afterward  you will  be gathered to your people."    So  Moses spoke to the people, saying -- "Equip  men from among  you for the army, that they  may serve against  Midian  to execute God's vengeance upon Midian.   A 1000  of  each tribe of  all the tribes of  Israel you will  send into the army." Accordingly  from the 1000s of Israel  a  1000  were assigned of a tribe,  12,000 equipped for the army.    Then Moses sent them out, a  1000 of each tribe, to the army, them and Phinehas  the son  of  Eleazar the priest to the army, and the  holy utensils  and the the trumpets for blowing  calls were in his hand.    And they went waging war against Midian,  just  as God had commanded Moses,  and  they proceeded to kill every male.    And they killed the kings of Midian along with the others slain, namely, Evi and Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian, and they killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.    But  the sons of Israel carried off the women of Midian  and their little ones captive -- and  all their  domestic animals and  all their livestock   and all their means of maintenance they plundered (rob, raid).     And   all their cities in which they had settled  and all their walled camps they burned with fire. And  they went taking all the spoil and the plunder and all the booty (valuables stolen/seized in war)  in the way of humans and domestic animals.   And they came bringing to Moses and  Eleazar  the priest and to the assembly of the sons of Israel the  captives  and  the  booty  and the spoil, to the camp, to the desert plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.   Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chieftains of the assembly went out to meet them outside the camp.    And  Moses grew  indignant   at the appointed men of the combat forces, the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s who were coming in from the military expedition.    So Moses said to them--"Have you  preserved alive every female?     Look!   They are the ones who, by Balaam's word,  served   to induce  the sons of Israel to commit  unfaithfulness toward God over the affair of Peor, so  that the scourge came upon the assembly of God.    And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill  every woman who has had  intercourse  with man by lying with a male.   And save alive for yourselves all the little ones among  the women who have not known the act of lying with a male.     As for yourselves, camp outside the camp 7 days.    Everyone who has killed a  soul  and everyone who has touched someone slain, you should purify yourselves on the 3rd day, and the 7th day, you and your captives.    And every garment and every article of skin  and everything made of goat's hair and every article of wood  you should purify for yourselves from sin."     Eleazar the priest then  said to the men of  the army who had gone into the battle --

 

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  "This is  the  statute of the law that God commanded Moses, 'Only the gold and the  silver, copper,  the iron,  the tin and the lead, everything that is processed with fire, you should pass through the fire, and it must be clean. Only it should be purified by the water for cleansing.    And everything that is not processed with fire you should  pass through the water.   And you must wash your  garments  on the 7th day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.'"    And  God proceeded  to say this to Moses--"Take the sum of the  booty, the captives both of humankind  and the domestic animals, you and  Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the assembly.    And you must divide  the booty in 2 between those taking part in the battle who went out on the expedition, and all the rest of the assembly.    And as a tax for God you must take away from the men of war who went out on the expedition   one  soul out of 500, of  humankind  and of the herd  and of the  asses and of the flock.   From  their 1/2  you  should take it and must give to Eleazar the priest as God's contribution.    And from the 1/2 of sons of Israel you should take 1 out 50, of humankind, of the herd, of the  asses and of the flock,  of every sort of domestic animal, and you must give them to the Levites, the keepers of the obligation of God's tabernacle."    And  Moses and Eleazar the priest went doing just as God had commanded to Moses.    And  the  booty, the rest the plunder that  the people of the expedition  had taken as plunder,   amounted to 675,000  of the flock, and  72,00 of the herd, and 61,000   asses.    As for human souls from the women  who had not known the act of lying with a male, all the souls were 32,000.     And  the 1/2 that was the share of  those who went out on the expedition  amounted in  number to 337,500 of the flock.   And the tax for God  from the flock amounted to 675.    And  of the herd there were 36,000 and the tax  on them for God was 72.   And the asses  were 30,500,   and the tax on them for God was 61.     And the human souls  were 16,000 and the tax on them for God was 32 souls.    Then Moses  gave the tax  as God's contribution to Eleazar the priest, just  as God had commanded Moses.   And  from the 1/2 belonging to the sons of Israel, which Moses divided from that belong to the men who waged war -- Now the 1/2 of the assembly from the flock amounted to 337,500,  and of the herd, 36,000, and  the  asses, 30,500,  and  the human souls, 16,000.      Then Moses took from the 1/2  belonging to the sons of Israel the 1 to be taken out of 50, of humankind and of domestic animals, and gave them to the Levites, the keepers of the obligation of God's tabernacle, just as God had commanded Moses.     And the appointed men who were of the 1000s of the army, the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s, proceeded to approach  

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   Moses, and to say to Moses --"Your servants  have taken the sum of the men of war  who are in our charge and not one  has been reported missing from us. So let us present each one what he has found as God's offering, articles of gold, ankle chainlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and female ornaments, in order to make atonement for our souls before God."      Accordingly Moses and Eleazar  the  priest  accepted  the gold from them, all the jewelry.   And all  the gold of  the contribution  that they contributed to God amounted to 16,750 shekels from the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s.   The men of the army  had taken plunder each for himself.    So Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the chiefs of the 1000s and of the 100s and brought  it  into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before God.             32  Now the sons of Reuben  and the  sons  of Gad had come to have  numerous  livestock, very many, in fact.    And  they began to see the land of Jazer and the land Gilead, and look!    the place was a place for a livestock. Hence the sons of Gad and Reuben came and  said  this to Moses  and Eleazar the priest and  to the chieftains of the assembly--"Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer  and  Mimrah   and Heshbon  and Elealeh and Sebam,  and  Nebo and Beon, the land the God defeated before the assembly of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."    And  they went on to say--"If we have found a favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession.   Do not make us cross the Jordan."    Then Moses  said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben --"Are your  brothers  to go to war while you yourselves keep living here?      And  why should  you  disheartened  the sons of  Israel from crossing into  the land that God will certainly give them?     That is the way your  fathers  did when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea  to see the land.    When  they went up  to the torrent valley of Eshcol and saw the land, then they disheartened the sons of Israel, so as not to go into the land that God was certain to give them.    Consequently God's anger blazed on that day so  that he swore, saying --'The men who came up out of Egypt from 20 years old  upward will  not see the soil  of which I  have sworn to Abraham, Isaac  and  Jacob, because they have not followed me  wholly, except Caleb the son of  Jephunneh the sons of Nun, because they have followed God wholly. So God 's anger blazed against Israel  and  he made them wander about in the wilderness 40 years, until all the generation that was doing  evil in the eyes God came to their end.    And  here you  have  risen  in the place of  your fathers  as the brood  of sinful men in  order  to add further to the burning anger of God against Israel. In case you should turn back from following him, he also would certainly once again let them stay longer in the wilderness, and you would have acted ruinously toward all this people."    Later they approached him and said--"Let us  build here stone flock pens for our livestock, and cities for our little ones.     But  we ourselves will go equipped  

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in  battle formation  before the sons of Israel until whenever we have brought them to their place, while our little  ones must  dwell  in the cities with fortifications (defenses walls) away from the face of the inhabitants of the land. We will not return to our houses  until the sons of Israel have provided themselves  with landed property, each with his own inheritance.   For  we shall not get an inheritance  with them from the side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us from the side of the Jordan toward the sunrising."     At  this Moses said to them -- "If  you will do this thing, if you will equip yourselves before God for the war, and every equipped one of yours will actually pass over the Jordan before God, until he drives away his enemies from before him,  and the land  is  actually subdued before God, and afterward you return, you  also will indeed prove yourselves free from guilt against God and against Israel-- and this land must become yours as a possession before God.     But  if you will not do this way, you will also certainly sin against God. In  that case  know that your sin will catch up with you.   Build  for yourselves cities for  your little ones and stone pens for your flocks, and what has gone forth from your  mouth you should do."    Then  the sons of Gad  and the sons of  Reuben said this to Moses -- "Your  servants will do just as my lord is commanding.    Our  little ones, our wives, our livestock and all our domestic  animals will  stay there in the cities  of Gilead.   but  your  servants will pass over, everyone  equipped for the army, before God for the war, just as my lord is speaking."       Accordingly  Moses gave a command  respecting them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.    So Moses said to them--"If the sons of Gad and the sons of  Reuben pass with you over the Jordan, everyone equipped for the war, before God, and the land is actually subdued  before you, you  must then give them the land of Gilead as a possession.    But if they do not pass over equipped with you, they must then be settled in your midst in the land of Canaan."     To  this the sons of Gad and the sons of  Reuben answered,  saying --"What God has spoken  to  your servants is the way we shall do.   We  ourselves  will pass over equipped before  God to the land of Canaan, and the possession of  our inheritance  will be with us  on this side of the Jordan."    At   this Moses gave to them, that is, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of  Reuben and to  1/2  the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og  the king Bashan, the land belonging to its cities in the territories, and the cities of the land round about.   And the sons of Gad proceeded to build Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer, and Atrothshophan and  Jazer and Jogbehah, Bethnimrah  and Bethharan, the cities with fortifications (defenses), and stone flock pens.   And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim, and Nobo and Baalmeon--their names being changed--and Sibmah -- and they began to call by their own names the names of the cities that they built.  

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And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh proceed to march to Gilead, and to capture it and to drive away the Amorites who were in it.    So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and  he took up  living in it.  And Jair  the son of  Manasseh  marched  and went capturing  their tent villages, and he began to  call  them Havvothjair.     And   Nobah marched and went capturing Kenath  and  its dependent towns -- and he began  to call it Nobah by his own name.                33     There were stages of the sons of Israel who went out of the land of  Egypt in their armies   by the hand of Moses and Aaron.   Moses kept  recording the  departure places by their stages at the order of God -- and these  were their stages  of  one departure place to another-- And  they proceeded  to pull  away  from Rameses in the 1st month, on the 15th day of the 1st month.   Directly  the day  after passover  the sons of Israel went out with  uplifted  hand before  the eyes  of all the Egyptians.    All  the while the Egyptians were  burying those whom God  had struck among them, that is, all the 1stborn--and upon their gods God had executed judgements.  So the sons of Israel  pulled  away from Rameses and went camping in Succoth.    Then they pulled away  Succoth and went  camping in Etham,  which  is on the edge of wilderness.   Next  they  pulled away from Etham and turned back toward Pihahiroth, which is in view of Baalzephon -  and they went camping before Migdol.    After  that they  pulled  away from Pihahiroth and went passing through the midst of  sea to the wilderness  and  kept marching  a  3 day journey  in  wilderness of  Etham  and took up camping in Marah. Then they  pulled away from  Marah   and came to Elim.  Now  in Elim there were  12  springs of water and  70 palm trees.  So  they camped there.   Next  they  pulled  away  from  Elim  and  went camping by the Red Sea.  After that they  pulled away  Red Sea  and  went camping  in the wilderness of Sin.   Then  they  pulled away from  the  wilderness of Sin  and camping  at   Dophkah.  Later they pulled away  from  Dophkah and went camping at  Alush.   They  next pulled away  from  Alush and went camping in  Rephidim.  And  there  proved  to  be  no water  for people to drink.   After  that they pulled  away  from  Rephidim  went  camping in the wilderness of Sinai.   Subsequently  they  pulled  away  from the  wilderness of Sinai and went camping  at  Kibrothhattaavah and camping in  Hazeroth.  After that  they pulled     away  from  Hazeroth  and went  camping  in Rithmah.   Next  they pulled away from Rithmah  and camping in  Rimmonperez.   Then they pulled away   from Rimmonperez  and went camping in  Libnah.   Later they pulled away from  Rissah and went camping in  Kehelathah.   Then  they pulled  away  from  Kehelathah and went camping in  Mount Shepher.   After  that they pulled  away  from Mount Shepher  and went camping in   Haradah.  Then  they pulled away  from Haradah and went  camping  

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in  Makheloth.    Next  they pulled  away  from Makheloth  and went camping in  Tahath.   After  that they pulled away from  Tahath  and went camping in  Terah.   Then  they pulled  away from  Terah  and went camping in  Mithkah.   Later  they  pulled away  from  Mithkah  and went camping  in Hashmonah.   Next  they  pulled  away  from  Hashmonah  and went camping in  Moseroth.  Then they pulled  away  from  Moseroth and went camping in  Benejaakan.   After  that they pulled away from  Benejaakan  and went camping in  Horhaggidgad.   Later  they pulled  away from Horhaggidgad  and went camping in  Jotbathah.    Later  they  pulled away from  Jotbathah  and went camping in  Abronah.   Then  they pulled away  from  Abronah  and went camping  in Eziongeber.   After that they pulled away from Eziongeber  and went camping  in the  wilderness of Zin,  that is to say, Kadesh.     Later they pulled away  from   Kadesh  and went camping in  Mount Hor, on  the frontier of  the land of Edom.    And  Aaron  the priest proceeded  to  go up into Mount Hor  at the  order of  God  and to die there  in the  40th year of  the going out of the sons of Israel  from the land of Egypt,  in the 5th month, on the 1st of the month.   And  Aaron was  123 years old at his death on Mount Hor.    Now the Canaanite, the king Arad, as he was  dwelling  in the Negeb,   in  the land of Canaan, got to hear about the coming of the sons of Israel.     In time they pulled away from Mount Hor and  went camping in Zalmonah.   After  that they pulled away  from Zalmonah  and went camping in Punon.   Next  they pulled away  from  Punon  and went camping in  Oboth.    Then  they  pulled  away  from  Oboth and went camping  in  Iyeabarim on  the  border of Moab.    Later they  pulled away  from  Iyim  and went camping  in Dibongad.   After  that they  pulled away  from  Dibongad and went camping  in  Almondiblathaim.    Then they pulled away  from   Almondiblathaim and went camping in the  Mountains of Abarim before  Nebo.    Finally  they pulled away from the mountains of Abarim  and took up camping  on the desert plains of Moab  by Jordan at Jericho.    And  they continued  camping by  the Jordan  from Bethjeshimoth  to  Abelshittim  on the desert plains of Moab.   And  God  proceeded to speak to Moses on the desert plains  of Moab  by the Jordan at Jericho, saying --"Speak to the sons of Israel,  and  you must say to them, 'You  are crossing the Jordan  into the land of Canaan.   And  you  must drive away all the inhabitants of the land  from before you, and destroy all their stone figures, and  all their images  of  molten metal  you  should destroy, and  all their  sacred  high places you should  annihilate.   And  you  must take  possession  of the land  and  dwell  in  it,  because  to you  I shall  certainly  give the land  to take possession of it.     And  you must  apportion  the land  to  yourselves  as  a possession by lot  according  to your  families.  To  the populous  one you should increase his inheritance, and to  the sparse  one  you should  reduce  his inheritance.   To where  the lot  will come  out for him, there  it will become his.   By  the tribes of  your  fathers  you should provide yourselves with landed property.  

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  "'If though, you  will  not drive the inhabitants of the land away from before you, then  those whom  you  leave of them will certainly become as pricks in your eyes  and  as  thorns in you sides, and they will indeed harass you on the land  in which you will be  dwelling.   And   it must occur that just as I had figured doing  to them  I shall  do to you.'"        34   And  God  spoke  further  to Moses, saying -- "Command  the sons of Israel, and  must say to them--'You are going into  the land of Canaan.   This  is the  land  which will fall to you by inheritance, the land of Canaan by its boundaries.    "'And your south side must proved to be from wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and  your south boundary  must prove to be from extremity of the Salt Sea on the east.   And your boundary  must  change direction from the south of  the  ascent of  Akrabbim  and  cross over to Zin, and its termination  must prove to be on the south of Kadeshbarnea --  and  it must  go out to Hazaraddar and pass over to Azmon.    And  the boundary must change direction at Azmon to the torrent valley of Egypt, and its termination must prove to be at the Sea.    "'As for a west boundary, it must prove to be for you the Great Sea and the shoreland.   This will become your  west boundary.  "'Now  this will become your north boundary -- From the Great Sea  you will mark  out to Mount Hor as a boundary for yourselves.   From  Mount Hor  you  will mark out the boundary to the entering in of Hamath, and the termination of the boundary must prove to be at Zedad.    And  the boundary must go out to Ziphron, and its termination must prove to be Hazarenan.    This will become your north boundary.    "'Then  you must mark for yourselves  as your boundary on the east from Hazarenan to Shepham.   And  the boundary must go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east of Ain, and the border  must go down and strike upon the eastern slope of the sea of Chinnereth.   And  the border must go down to the Jordan, and its termination must prove to be the Salt Sea.   This will  become your  land according  to its boundaries all around.'"    So  Moses commaned  the  sons of Israel, saying --"This  is  the land that you will  apportion  to yourselves  as  a possession by lot,  just  as God  has  commanded  to give  to the 9 1/2 tribes.   For the tribe of the sons of the Reubenites by the house of their fathers, and  the tribe of the sons of the Gadites by the house of their fathers have already taken thier inheritance.   The  2  1/2 tribes  have already  taken their inheritance from the region of the Jordan by Jericho eastward toward the sunrising."     And God spoke further to Moses, saying  --"These  are the names of the  men who will divide the land to you people for a possession, Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.   And you will take  one chieftain out of each tribe to divide land for a possession. And   these are the names of the men-Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh  --  and the of the tribe of sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud -- of the  tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon -- and of the   tribe of sons of Dan a chieftain  

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   Bukki the son of Jogli --  of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a chieftain, Hanniel the son of Ephod -- and  of the  tribe of the sons of Ephraim a chieftain, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan -- and of the tribe of the sons of Zubulun a chieftain, Elizaphan the son of Parnach -- and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a chieftain, Paltiel the son of Azzan -- and  of the tribe of the  sons of Asher a chieftain, Ahihud the son of Shelomi --  and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a chieftain Pedahel the son of Ammihud."  These  are the ones whom God  commanded  to make the sons of Israel landholders in the land of  Canaan.        35    And God went on  speak  to Moses  on the desert plains of Moab  by  the Jordan at Jericho, saying --"Give  the sons of Israel command  that  they must give the Levites cities to  inhabit  out of the inheritance  of  their possession, and they should give the Levites  the  pasture ground all around them.     And  the cities must serve for them to  inhabit,  while their pasture ground   will serve  for domestic animals  and all their goods  and  for all  their and wild beasts.    And the pasture grounds  of  the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will be from the wall of the city and out for a 1,000 cubits (approx. 1500 feet) all around.    And  you  must measure  outside the city on the east side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet)  and on the south side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet)  and on the  west side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet) and  on  the north side 2,000 cubits ( approx. 3000 feet),   with the city in the middle.    This  will  serve them as pasture grounds of the cities. "These  are the  cities that  you will give to the Levites -- 6 cities of refuge, which you will give for the manslayer (murderer)  to flee there, and  beside them  you will  give 42 other cities.    All the cities  that you will give to  the Levites will be 48 cities to the Levites,   they together with their pasture grounds.   The  cities  that you will give will  be from the  possession  of  the sons of Israel.    From  the many  you will take many, and from  the few  you will take few.    Each one,  in proportion  to his inheritance that he will take as a possession, will give some of his cities to the Levites."     And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying  --"Speak  to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them,  'You  are crossing Jordan to the land of Canaan.   And  you must choose cities convenient for yourselves.    As  cities of refuge they will serve for you, and the  manslayer  must flee there  who fatally strikes  a  soul    unintentionally.   And  the  cities  must serve you as a refuge from  the blood avenger, that the  manslayer  may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment.    And the ciities that you will give,  the   6 cities  of refuge  will be at your service.    3  cities you will give on the side of the Jordan, and 3 cities you will give in land of Canaan.   As  cities of refuge they will serve.    For  the sons  of Israel and for the alien resident  and  for the settler in the midst of them   these  6  cities will serve as a refuge, for anyone  to flee there that fatally strikes  a  soul  unintentionally.   "'Now  if  it was  with an iron  that  he has struck  him  so  that he dies, he is a murderer.    Without  fail murderer  should  be put to death.    And   if  it was a small  stone  by which he could die that  has struck  him so that  he  

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 dies,  he is a murderer.    Without   fail the murderer should be put to death. And if it was with  a  small  instrument  of wood by which he could die  that  he has   struck  him so  that he dies, he is a murderer.    Without fail the murderer should  be put to death.     "'The avenger  of blood  is the one  who will  put  the  murderer to death.    When  he chances upon him  he himself  will put him to death.     And   if  in hatred  he was pushing  him  or he has thrown at him while lying in wait  that he might die,  or  in enmity  he has  struck  him with his hand that he might die, without  fail  the striker should  be put to death.   He  is  a   murderer.   The  avenger of blood will put  the  murderer to death when he chances upon him.    "'But if it was unexpectedly  without  enmity  that he has pushed him or has thrown  any  article  toward him without lying in wait, or any stone by which  he could die without seeing him or he should cause  it to fall upon him,  so  that  he died,  while he was not at enmity with him and was not seeking his injury,  the assembly  must then judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these judgements.   And  the assembly must deliver  the   manslayer  out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly  must return him  to his city of refuge  to which he had fled, and he must dwell  in  it until the death of high priest  who was anointed with holy oil.     "'But  if the  manslayer  without fail goes  out of the boundary of  his city of refuge to which he may flee, and  the avenger of  blood does  find  him  outside the boundary of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood does   slay  the  manslayer, he  has no blood guilt.   For he ought  to  dwelt  in his city  of refuge until high priest's  death,  and after high priest's death  the  manslayer  may return  to the land of his possession.   And  these  must serve  as a   statute  of judgment  for you  throughout your  generations  in all of your dwelling places.   "'Every  fatal  striker of a   soul  should  be  slain  as  a murderer at the  mouth  of witnesses, and  one witness  may  not testify against  a  soul  for him to die.   And  you must take   no  ransom  for  the soul  of a murderer   who  is deserving   to die,  for without  fail  he should  be put  to death.  And  you  must  not  take a ransom  for one who has fled to the city of refuge, to resume   dwelling  in the land before the death of  the  high priest.   "'And  you must not pollute the land where you are, because  it  is the  blood that pollutes the land, and   for the land there may be no atonement respecting the blood that has been spilled upon it   except  by the blood of the one who spilling it.  And you must  not defile the land in which you are  dwelling, in the midst of it which I am  residing in  the midst of the sons of Israel.'"        36   And the heads of the fathers  of the  family  of the sons of Gilead  the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph proceeded  to come near and speak  before Moses and the chieftains, the heads of the fathers of the sons of of Israel, and say -- "God  commanded  my  lord  to give the land in inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by God to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to  his daughters.    If  any of the sons of Israel happened  to  get them as wives, the women's inheritance must also  be  

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withdrawn  from the inheritance of  our fathers  and  must be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they may come to belong, so that it would be withdrawn  from  the lot of our inheritance.   Now  if the Jublilee takes place for the sons of Israel, the women's inheritance must also be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they may come to belong, so that their inheritance would be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."    Then   Moses  commanded the sons of Israel at the order of God, saying--"The tribe of the sons of Joseph is speaking right.  This  is the word of God has commanded for the daughters of Zelophehad, saying--'To whom it is good in their eyes they may become wives.   Only  it  is  to the family of the tribe of their fathers that they should become wives.     And  no inheritance of the sons of Israel should cleave  from tribe to tribe, because the sons of Israel should  Cleave  each one to the inheritance of the tribe of  his  forefathers.   And every daughter  getting  possession  of an inheritance  out of the tribes of the sons of Israel,  to  one of  the family of the tribe of  her father  she should become a wife, in  order that the sons of  Israel may  get possession each one of the inheritance of his  forefathers.      And  no inheritance should circulate from one tribe to another tribe, because  the tribes of the sons of Israel cleave   each  to its own inheritance.'"    Just  as God had commanded Moses, that is the way of daughters of Zelophehad did.       Accordingly  Mahlah, Tirzah  and  Hoglah  and  Milcah and Noah,   the  daughters of Zelophehad,   became  the  wives of the sons of their father's brothers.    To  some of  the families of the sons  of Manasseh  the son of Joseph  they became wives, that their inheritance might  continue  together with  the tribe of the family of their father.   These are the commandments and the judicial decisions  that  God commanded by means of Moses to the sons of Israel   on   the desert plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 

Deuteronomy 

1      These  are the words  that Moses  spoke  to all Israel  in  the region of the  Jordan in the wilderness,  on  the  desert plains in front of Suph, between Paran and Tophel  and  Laban  and  Hazeroth and Dizahab,  it  being  11 days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir   to Kadeshbarnea.   And  it was about in the 40th year, in the 11th month and on the 1st day of the month,   Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to  all  that God had commanded  him for them, after  his defeating  Sihon   the king  of the Amorites, who was dwelling  in Heshbon, and Og  king of Bashan, who was  dwelling  in Ashtaroth,  in Edrei.     In  the  region of the Jordan in the land of Moab  Moses  undertook to explain this law, saying  --"God our Jehovah spoke to us in Horeb, saying,  'You have  

   

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 dwelt long enough in this mountainous  region.   Turn and  set out on your way  and go into the mountainous  region  of the Amorites and to all their neighbors  in the Arabah, the mountainous region and  the Shephelah  and the Negeb  and the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, up to the great river, the river of Euphraites.   See, I do put the land before you people.   Go  in and take  possession of  the land about which God  swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them  and their  seed after them.'     "And  I  proceeded  to  say this  to you at that particular time,  'I  am not able  by myself  to carry you,  Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and  here you are today  like the stars of the heavens of multitude.    May Jehovah the God of your ancestors increase you a  1000 times  as many  as you are, and  may HE bless you just as he promised you.     How  can I carry by myself the burden of you, and the load of you, and your quarreling?    Get wise  and  discreet  and experienced  men of your tribes, that  I may  set them as heads  over you.'   At that you answered me and said, 'The  thing  you have  spoken for  us to do is good'       So  I took the heads of your tribes, men wise and experienced,  and  put them as heads over you, chiefs of 1000s and chiefs of 100s  and chiefs of  50s  and chiefs  of  10s and officers of your tribes.   "And  I went on  to command your judges at that particular time, saying, 'When  having  a  hearing between your brothers, you must judge with righteousness  between  a man and  his brother or his alien resident.    You must not be partial in judgment.     You should   hear the little one the same as the great one.    You  must not become  frightened   because of a man, for the judgment belongs to God  -- and the case that is too hard for you,  you should present it to me,   and  I must hear it.     And  I proceeded to command  you  at that particular  time  all the things that you should do.   "Then we  pulled away  from  Horeb  and went marching through all that great and fear-inspiring wilderness, which you have seen, by the way of the mountainous region of the Amorites,  just  as our God had commanded us, and we eventually  came to Kadeshbarnea.   Now  said to you, 'You have come to the mountainous region of the Amorites,  just  as   God  our  Lord is giving to us.     See,  Jehovah your God has abandoned the land to you.    Go up, take possession, just as Jehovah the  God of your   forefathers   has spoken to you.    Do  not be afraid, nor be terrified. "However,  all of you came  near me and said,  'Do  let us send men ahead of us that they may search  out the land for us, and bring us back word concerning   the  way by which we should go up  and  the  cities which we will  come'   Well, the thing proved to be good in my eyes, so that  I  took 12 men of yours,  one  for each tribe.    Then  they turned and went up into the mountainous   region  and  got  as far as torrent valley of Eshcol and went spying on it.    And they proceeded to take some  of the fruitage  of the  land  in their  hand and to bring it down to us, and they came bringing   us back word and saying, 'The  land  that God our  Lord   is giving us is good.'    But  you did  not wish to go up, and you began to behave rebelliously    

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 against  the order of God our  Lord.    And you  kept grumbling in your tents and saying--'It  was because God  hated us that HE brought us out of the  land of Egypt  to  give us  into the hands of Amorites, to   annihilate (destroy) us.    Where are we going up?    Our  brothers have caused our hearts to melt, saying--"A people greater and taller than we are, cities great and fortified to the heavens  and  also the sons of the Anakim we saw there."'   "So I said to you, 'You  must  not suffer a shock or  be afraid because of them.   God your Jehovah is the one going before you.   He will fight for you  according to  all that he  did with you in Egypt under your own eyes, and in the wilderness, where  you saw how  God your  Lord  carried  you just as  a man carries his son, in  all the way that you walked until you coming to this place.'     But despite this word you were not putting faith in God your  Lord, who  was going before you in the way to spy out for you a place for you to camp, by fire at night for you to see by what way you should walk and by a cloud in daytime.     "All the while God heard the voice of your words.   So  he became indignant and swore,  saying,   'Not  one among  these men of this  evil generation will see the good land  that I  swore  to give to your fathers, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh.     He  will see it, and  to him  and to his sons  I shall  give the land upon  which he  trods (walks), by reason of the fact that he has followed God fully.    (Even against me God got  incensed (enraged)  on your account, saying, 'You too will not go in there. Joshua the son of Nun, who is standing before you, is  the one who will go in there.'    Him  he has made strong, because he will cause Israel to inherit it.)      As for your little ones of whom you said--"plunder  they will become!" and your sons who today  do  not know good or bad, these  will go in there, and to them I shall give it, and they will take possession of it.     As   for you yourselves, change your direction and  pull  away for the wilderness  by the way of the Red Sea.'      "At  this you answered  and said to  me,  'We  have sinned against God. We --  we shall go up and fight  in accord with all our God has commanded us!     So you girded on, each one, his weapons of war and regarded  it as easy to go up into the mountain.    But God said to me--'Say to them--"You must  not go up and fight, because I am not in your midst, that you may not be defeated before your enemies."'    So I   spoke  to you, and you did not listen   but   began to behave  rebelliously against God's order   and  to get all  heated up (angry),  and you tried to go up into the mountain.     Then  the Amorites who were   dwelling  in that mountain came out to meet you  and went chasing you, just as bees do, and scattering you   in Seir as far as Hormah.    After  that  you returned and began to weep before God, but  God did not listen to your voice, neither did he give ear to you.  So  you kept dwelling  in Kadesh many days, as many days as you did dwell  there.      2   "Then  we turned  and pulled away  for the wilderness by the way  of the Red Sea,  just as God had spoken to me --  and we were many days in going  around  Mount Seir.   Finally  God  said this to me,  'You  have gone around  this  mountain long enough.   Change your 
 

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    direction to the north.    And  you command the people, saying --"You are passing along  by the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau who are   dwelling in Seir, and they will be afraid because of you, and  you must be very careful.      Do not  engage in  strife (conflict)  with them, because I shall not give  you their land so much  as the width of the sole of the foot --  because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a holding.     What food you may buy from them for money,  you must eat  -- and also what water you may purchase from them  for money--you must drink.   For  Jehovah your God has blessed you  in every deed of your hand.   He well knows of your walking through this great wilderness.  These 40 years God your  Lord has been with you.    You have not lacked a thing."      So we passed on away from our brothers, the sons of Esau, who are  dwelling  in Seir, from the way of Arabah, from  Elath and from Eziongeber.   "Next we turned and passed on  by the way of the wilderness of Moab.    God  then  said to me, 'Do not molest  Moab  or  engage in war with them, because I shall not give you any of his land as a holding, for  to the sons of   Lot   I have given Ar as a holding.     (The Emim  dwelt   in  it in former times, a people great and numerous   and tall like the Anakim.    As for the Rephaim, they also were considered like the Anakim, and the Moabites used to call them Emim. And  the Horites   dwelt   in Seir  in former times, and the sons of Esau proceeded to dispossess  them and to  annihilate (destroy) them from before them, and   dwell   in their place,  just the  same as Israel must do to the land that is his holding, which God will certainly give to them.)      At this time rise and make your way  across the torrent valley of  Zered.   Accordingly  we went  crossing  the torrent valley of Zered.  And the days that we walked from  Kadeshbarnea  until we crossed the torrent valley of Zered were 38 years, until  all the generation of the men of war had come to their  end  from the midst of the camp, just as God had sworn to them.   And the hand of God  also proved to be upon them  to disquiet them out of the midst of the camp, until they came to their end.   "And  it  was about that  as soon  as all the men of  war had finished  dying off from the midst of the people. God spoke further to me, saying,   'You  are passing  today by the territory of Moab, that is Ar,  and you must get  close in front of the sons of Ammon.   Do not molest them  or engage in  strife (conflict) with them,   because I   shall not  give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a holding, for it is to  the sons of Lot that I have given it as a holding.     As the land of the Rephaim it also used to be considered.   (The Rephaim dwelt  in it  in former times, and  Ammonites used to call them Zamzummim.    They were a great and  numerous  and tall people like the Anakim --  and God went  annihilating (destroying) them from before them, that  they might dispossess  them and  dwell  in their place -- just  the same  as he  did for the sons of Esau,  who are  dwelling  in Seir, when   he  annihilated (destroyed)  the Horites from before them, that they might dispossess   them and  dwell  in their place until this day.     As for the Avvim, who were  dwelling   in settlements as far as  

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   Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor,  anniliated them,  that  they might dwell in their place.)   "'Get up,  pull away and cross the torrent valley of Arnon.     See, I  have given  into  your hand  Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Amorite.   So start to possession  of  his land, and engage in war with him.    This  day  I shall start  to put the dread of you and the fear of you before the peoples  beneath all the heavens, who will hear  the report about you -- and  they  will indeed be agitated and have pains like those of childbirth because of you.'   "Then  I sent messengers from the wilderness  of  Kedemoth  to Sihon  the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying --'Let  me pass through your land. Only on the road I shall walk.    I   shall  not turn  to the right  or to the left.   What food you will  sell me for money,  I must eat -- and  what water  you will give me for money,  I must drink.   Only  let me pass through on my feet, just the same as the sons of Esau   dwelling  in Seir and  the Moabites  dwelling in Ar did to me, until I  shall pass over  the Jordan into the land that God our Lord  is giving to us.'    And  Sihon king of Heshbon  did not  let us pass  through him,  because  God our  Lord  had let his spirit  become   obstinate  and his  heart become hard, in order  to give him into your hand just as at this day.    "At  this God said to me, 'See, I  have started  to abandon Sihon and his land to you.    Start  to take possession of  his land.'     When  Sihon came on out, he and all his people, to meet us in battle at Jahaz, then  God our  Lord  abandoned  him to us,  so that we defeated him and his sons and all his people.   And  we went capturing  all his cities  at that  particular time and devoting  every city to destruction, men and women and little children.    We left no survivor.   Only the domestic animals did we take as plunder for ourselves, together with the spoil of the cities that we had captured.    From Aroer, which is by the bank of the torrent valley of Arnon,  and the city that is in the torrent valley, as far as Gilead, there proved to be no town  that was too high up for us.   God our Jehovah abandoned them all to us.    Only you  did not go near  the land of the sons of Ammon, the whole  bank of the torrent valley of Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountainous region, nor anything about which God our Lord had given command.         3   "Then  we turned and went up by the way of Bashan.    At  this Og the king of Bashan  came on out, he and all his people, to meet us  in battle at Edrei.   So  God said to me, 'Do  not be afraid of him  for I   shall  certainly  give him and all his people   and his land into your hand --  and you  must do to him just as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was   dwelling  in Heshbon.'    Accordingly Jehovah our God gave  into our hand also Og the king of Bashan and all his people, and  we kept striking (killing) him until he had no survivor remaining.   And we went capturing  all  his cities  at  that particular time. There proved  to  be no town that we did not take from them,  60  cities, all the  region  of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.   All  these were cities fortified with high wall, doors and bar, aside  from very many rural towns. However, we devoted  them to destruction, just  as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, in devoting every city

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    to destruction, men, women and little children.      And   all the domestic animals  and the spoil  of the cities  we took  as plunder for ourselves.   "And  we proceeded  to take  at that particular time  the land from the hand of  the 2  kings of the Amorites  who were  in the region of the Jordan, from  the torrent valley  of Arnon  as far as Mount Hermon --(the Sidonians  used  to call  Hermon Sirion, and  the Amorites used to call it Senir,)   all  the cities of the tableland  and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as  Salecah  and Edrei,  the  cities of kingdom of Og  in Bashan).   For only Og  the king of Bashan  remained of  what was left of the Rephaim. Look! His bier (coffin) was  a bier of the iron.     Is it not  in Rabbah  of the sons of Ammon?      9  cubits (approx. 13 1/2 feet)  is its length,  and 4 cubits (approx. 6 feet)  its width, by  the cubit of a man.   And  we took possession of this land  at that particular time -- from Aroer, which  is is  ​​ the torrent valley of Arnon, and 1/2  of the mountainous region of Gilead, and  its cities I  have given to  the Reubenites and the Gadites.    And  the rest of Gilead  and all  Bashan of the kingdom of Og  I  have given to the half tribe of Manasseh.    All  the region of  Argob of  all Bashan,  is  it  not called the land of the Rephaim?    "Jair  the son  of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the boundary of the Geshurites  and the Maacathites, and he  proceeded  to call  those villages of Bashan by his own name, Havvothjair, to this day.     To Machir   I have given Gilead.    To the Reubenites and the Gadites I have given from Gilead to the torrent valley of Arnon, the middle of the torrent valley being a boundary, and as far as Jabbok, the torrent valley that  is the boundary of the sons of Ammon,  and the Arabah and the Jordan and the border, from Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the base of  slopes of Pisgah toward the sunrising.    "So  I commanded  you men  at that particular time, saying--'Jehovah your God  has given you this land to take possession of it.   You will pass over, equipped, before your brothers, the sons of Israel, all the valiant (fearless) men.     Only your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I well know that you have a great deal of livestock) will continue  dwelling  in  your cities  that  I  have given you, until God give your brothers rest, as well as you, and they also have taken possession of the land that Jehovah your God is giving them across the Jordan -- after which you  must come back, each one  to  his holding  that I have given you.'    "And  I commanded  Joshua at that particular time, saying -- 'Your eyes are seeing  all  that  God your  Lord  has done to these 2 kings.   The same way God will do to all the kingdoms  to which you are passing over there.   You men must not be afraid of them, for God your Jehovah is the One fighting for you.'  "And  I proceeded  to  implore  favor from God at that particular time, saying -- 'O Sovereign Lord God, you yourself have started to make your servant  see your  greatness  and your strong arm, for who is a god in the heavens or   on  the earth  that does deeds like yours and mighty performances like yours?    Let me pass over, please,  and see the good land that is across the Jordan, this good mountainous region  

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and Lebanon.'    God continued  to be  furious against me on your account  and did not listen  to me --  but God said to me--'That is enough of you!   Never  speak to  me further on this matter.   Go up  to the top of Pisgah  and raise  your eyes  to the west  and north  and  south and east and see with your eyes, for you  will not pass over this Jordan.   And commission Joshua  and encourage him and strengthen him, because he is the one to pass over before this people   and he is the one  to cause them to inherit the land that you will see.'    All  this while we were  dwelling in the valley  in  front of Bethpeor.        4   "And now,  O Israel, listen  to the  regulations  and  the judicial decisions   that  I am  teaching you to do, in order  that you  may live  and may indeed go in  and  take possession  of the land that God of your  forefathers  is giving you.    You  must  not add to  the word that I am commanding you,  neither  must  you take away from it, so as to keep the commandments of God your Jehovah that I am commanding you.     "Your own  eyes are the ones  that  saw what God did in the  case of Baal of Peor, that  every  man who walked after the Baal of Peor  was the  one whom God of your Jehovah  annihilate (destroyed)  from your midst.     But  you  who are  cleaving (separating)  to God your  Lord are all of  you alive today.    See, I  have taught you regulations and judicial decisions, just as  God my Lord has commanded me, for you to do that way in the midst of the land   to which you are going to take possession of it.  And you must keep and do them, because this is wisdom on  your part and  understanding  on your part before  the eyes of  the peoples who will hear of all  these regulations, and  they will certainly say, 'This  great nation is undoubtedly a wise and understanding people.'    For  what great nation is there  that has  gods near to it  the way  God our  Lord is in all our calling upon him?      And what  great nation is there that has righteous regulations and judicial decisions   like all  this law  that I am putting before you today? "Only watch out  for yourself and take good care of your soul, that you may not forget the things that your eyes have seen and that they may not depart from your heart all the days of your life  -- and you must make them known  to your sons  and  to your grandsons, the day that you stood before   God your  Lord  in Horeb, when God said to me, 'Congregate the people together to me  that I  may let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they are alive on the soil   and that they may teach their sons.'    "So you people came near and stood at the base of the mountain, and the mountain  was burning  with fire up to midheaven--there was darkness, cloud and thick gloom.    And  God began to speak to you  out of the middle of the fire.   The sound  of words  was what you were hearing, but no form were you seeing --nothing but a voice.    And he proceeded to  state to  you his covenant, which  he commanded you to perform -- the Ten Words. after  which  he wrote them upon 2 tablets of stone.   And it was  I whom God  commanded at that particular time  to  

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teach you regulations and judicial decisions, for you to do them in the land to which you are passing over to take ownership of it.  And you must take good care of your souls, because you did not see any form on the day of God's speaking to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, that you may not act ruinously, and may not really make for yourselves a carved image, the form of any symbol, the representation of male or female, the representation of any beast  that is in the earth, the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, the representation  of anything moving on the ground, the representation of any fish that is in the waters under the earth, and that you may not raise your eyes to the heavens and indeed see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and actually get seduced and bow down to them and serve them, which  your God has apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.  But you are the ones God took that he might bring you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to become a people of private ownership to him as at this day.   And God got very angry at me on your account, so that he swore-- I should not cross the Jordan or go into the good land our God is giving you as inheritance. For I am dying in this land. I am not crossing the Jordan, but you are crossing, and you must take ownership of this good land.   Watch out for yourselves that you may not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God that he concluded with you, and that you do not make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything about which your God has commanded you. For your God is a consuming fire, a God exacting exclusive devotion. In case you become father to sons and grandsons and you resided a long time in the land and do act ruinously and do make a carved image, a form of anything, and do commit evil in the eyes of Jehovah your God so as to offend him.   I do take as witnesses against you today the heavens and the earth, that you will positively perish in a hurry from off the land  to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it.  You will not lengthen your days on it, because you will positively be destroyed.  God will certainly scatter you among the peoples, and you will indeed  remain a few in number among the nations to which God will drive you away.  There you will have to serve gods, the product of the hands of man, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.   If you do look for God your Jehovah from there, you will also certainly find him, because you will ask for him with all your heart and with all your soul.  When you are in sore straits and all these words have found you out at the close of the days, then you will have to return to your God and to listen to his voice.   For your God is a merciful God.   He will not desert you or bring you to ruin or forget the covenant of your forefathers that he swore to them.   Now ask please, concerning the former days that occurred before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the

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heavens to the other end of the heavens, was any great thing brought about like this or was anything heard like it?  Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire the way you yourself have heard it, and kept on living?  Or did God attempt to come to take a nation to himself out the midst of another nation with provings, with signs and with miracles and with war, and with a strong hand, and with an outstrectched arm and with fearsomeness like all that your God has done for you in Egypt before your eyes?  You -- You have been shown, so as to know that Jehovah is the true God--there is no other besides him.  Out of the heavens he made you hear his voice so as to correct you--and upon the earth he made you see his great fire, and his words you heard from the middle of the fire.  And yet you continue to live, because he loved your forefathers so that he chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt in his sight with his great power, to drive away nations greater and mightier than you from before you, so as to bring you in, to give you their land as inheritance as at this day.   You well know today, and you must call  back to your heart that God is the true God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.      There is no other.   And you must keep his regulations and his commandments  that I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and your sons after you, and in order that you may lengthen your days on the soil that your God is giving you, always."   At that time Moses proceeded to set apart cities on the side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, for the manslayer to flee there who kills his fellow without knowing it, while he was not hating him formerly--and he must flee to one of these cities and live, namely, Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.  Now this is the law that Moses set before the sons of Israel.   These are the testimonies and the regulations and the judicial decisions that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel on their way out of Egypt, in the region of the Jordan in the valley in front of Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated on their way out of Egypt.  They took possession of the land, and of the land of Og the king of Bushan, the 2 kings of the Amorites who were in the region of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the torrent valley of Arnon, up to Mount Sion, that is Hermon, and all the Arabah in the region of the Jordan toward the east, and as far as the sea of the Arabah at the base of the slopes of Pisgah.                             5   Moses proceeded to call all Israel and to say to them--"Hear, O Israel, the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am speaking in your ears today, and you must learn them and be careful to do them.  Our God concluded (ended) a covenant with us in Horeb.  It was not with our ancestors that God concluded this covenant,                                        

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but with us, all those of us alive here today.   Face to face God spoke with you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire.  I was standing between God and you at that particular time to tell you the word of God, (for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up into the mountain) saying  --  "'I am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.  You must never have any other gods against my face.  You must not make for yourself a  carved image, any form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth.   You must not bow down to them or be led to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons and upon the 3rd generation and upon the 4th generation, in the case of those who hate me--but exercising loving kindness toward the 1000th generation in the case of those who love me and keep my commandments.  You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way-- for God will not leave anyone unpunished who takes up his name in worthless way.  Keeping the sabbath day to hold it sacred, just as your God commanded you, you are to render service and you must do all your work 6 days.  But the 7th day is a sabbath to your God.   You must not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, slave man, slave girl, bull nor your donkey, nor any domestic animal of yours, nor your alien resident who is inside your gates, in order  that your slave man and your slave girl may rest the same as you.  You must remember that you became a slave in Egypt and your God proceeded to bring you out from there with a strong hand and outstretched arm.   That is why your God commanded you to carry on the sabbath day.   Honor your father and your mother, just as your God has commanded you, in order that your days may prove long and it may go well with you on the ground that your God is giving you.  You must not murder.  You must not commit adultery   You must not steal.  Must not testify to a falsehood against your fellowman.   You must not desire your fellowman's wife.  Must not selfishly desire fellowman's house, his field, or his slave man or slave girl, his bull, his donkey or anything that belongs to your fellowman.  These words of God spoke to all your congregation in the mountain out of the middle of the fire, the cloud and the thick gloom, with a loud voice and he added nothing, after which he wrote them upon 2 tablets of stone and gave them to me.  It was about that as soon as you had heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you proceeded to come near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your 

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older men.  Then you said, 'Here God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire.  This day we have seen that God may speak with man and he may actually keep living.  Now why should we die, for this great fire may consume us?  If we are again hearing the voice of God any further, we are also certain to die.  For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire as we did and yet goes on living?  You yourself go near and hear all that our God will say and you will be the one to speak to us all that our God will speak to you, and we shall certainly listen and do.'   So God heard the voice of our words when you spoke to me, and God went on to say to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you.  They have done well in all they have spoken.  If only they would develop this heart of theirs to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, in order that it  might go well with them and their sons forever.  Go say to them--"Return home to your tents."  You must stand here with me, and let me speak to you all the commandment and the regulations and the judicial decisions that you should teach to them and that they must do in the land that I am giving them to own it.  You people must take care to do just as your God has commanded you.  You must not turn to the right or the left.  In all the way that your God has commanded you, you should walk, in order that you may live and it may be well with you and you may indeed lengthen your days in the land of which you will own it.                6        Now these are the  commandment, the regulations and the judicial decisions that your God has commanded to teach you, so as to do them in the land to which you are passing over there to take ownership of it--in order that you may fear your God so as to keep all his statutes (laws) and his commandments that I am ordering you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and in order that your days may prove long.   You must listen, O Israel and take care to do them, that it may go well with you and that you may become very many, just as Jehovah the God of your ancestors has promised you, as respects the land flowing with milk and honey.   Listen, O Israel--Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.  You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all our vital force.  These words that I am commanding you today must prove to be on your heart, and you must instill them in your son, and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.  And you must tie them as a sign upon your hand, and they must serve as a frontlet (cloth ornament hanging in front of Altar) hand between your eyes, and you must write them upon the doorposts of  your house and on your gates.  It must occur that when your God will bring you into the land that he swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give 

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you, great and good looking cities that you did not build. and house full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns (water holding receptacle) carved out that you did not carve out, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you shall have eaten and become full--watch out for yourself that you may not forget God who brought you out of Egypt, out of house of slaves.  Lord your God you should fear, and him you should serve, and by his name you should swear.  You must not walk after other gods, any gods of the peoples who are all around you,  (For Lord your God in your midst is a God exacting exclusive devotion.)  for fear of anger of God your Lord may burn against you and he must destroy you from off the surface of the ground.  You must not put your God to the test, the way you put him to the test at Massah.  You should by all means keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his testimonies and his regulations that he has commanded you.  You must do what is right and good in God's eyes, in order that it may go well with you, and you may indeed enter and take ownership of the good land about which God has sworn to you, just as God has promised you.   In case your son should ask you in the future, saying--'What do the testimonies and the regulations and the judicial decisions mean that God your Jehovah has commanded you?  then you must answer your son, 'We became slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but God proceeded to bring us out of Egypt with  a strong hand, So Jehovah kept putting signs and miracles great and disastrous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, upon all his household before our eyes.  He brought us out of there in order that he might bring us here to give us the land about which he had sworn to our ancestors.   Hence God  ordered us to carry out all these regulations, to fear God our Jehovah for our good always, that we might keep alive as to this day.  It will mean righteousness for us--that we take care to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as he commanded us.'                7   When your God  at last bring you into the land to which you are going to take ownership of it, he must also clear away populous nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites , the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites--7 nations more populous and mighty than you are.  Your God will certainly abandon them to you, and you must defeat them.  You should without fail devote them to destruction.   You must end (conclude) no covenant with them, nor show them any favor.  You must form no marriage alliance with them--Your daughter you must not give to his son, and his daughter you must not take for your son.  For he will turn your son from following me, and they will certainly serve other gods, and God's anger will  indeed burn against you, and he will certainly destroy you in a hurry.  On the other hand, this is what you should do to them-- 

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Their altars you should pull down, and their sacred pillars you should break down, and their sacred poles you should put down, and their graven images you should burn with fire.  For you are a holy people to your God Jehovah.  It is you your God has chosen to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples that are on the surface of the ground.  It is not because of your being the most populous of all the peoples that God showed affection for you so that he chose you, for you were the least of all the peoples.  But it was because of God's loving you, and because of his keeping the sworn statement that he had sworn to your forefathers (ancestors), that God brought you out with a strong hand, that he might redeem you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt.   You well know that your God is the true God, the faithful God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness in the case of those who love him and those who keep his commandments to a 1000 generations, but repaying to his face the one who hates him by destroying him.  He will not hesitate toward  the one who hates him-- he will repay him to his face.  And you must keep the commandment and the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am commanding you today by doing them.   It must occur that because you continue listening to these judicial decisions and you do keep them and do carry them out, your God must keep toward you the covenant (relationship) and the loving-kindness about which he swore to your ancestors.   And he will certainly love you and bless you and multiply you and bless the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your soil, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the young of your cows and the offspring of your flock, on the soil that he swore to your forefathers to give to you.  The most blessed  of all the peoples you will become.   There will not prove to be in you a male or a female without offspring, nor among your domestic animals.   Jehovah will certainly remove from you every sickness and as for all the evil diseases of Egypt that you have known, he will not place them upon you, and he will indeed put them upon all those who hate you.  You must consume all the peoples whom your God is giving to you.  Your eye must not feel sorry for them, and you must not serve their gods, because that will be a trap (noose) to you.  In case you say in your heart--'These nations are too populous for me.  How shall I be able to drive them away?' you must not be afraid of them.  You should by all means remember what your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, the great provings that your eyes saw, and the signs and the miracles and the strong hand and outstretched arm with which your God brought you out.  That is the way your God will do to all the peoples before whom you are afraid.  Your God will also send the feeling of dejection upon them, until those perish who were let remain and who were hiding themselves from before you.  You must not suffer a shock because of them, for God  

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your Jehovah is in your midst, a great fear-inspiring God. And your God will certainly push these nations away from before you little by little. You will not be allowed to finish them off quickly, for fear the wild beasts of the field may multiply against you. Your God will indeed abandon them to you and rout them with a great rout (retreat, defeated troop), until they are destroyed. He will certainly give their kings into your hand, and you must destroy their names from under the heavens. Nobody will take a firm stand against you, until you will have exterminated them. The graven images of their gods you should burn in the fire. You must not desire the silver and the gold upon them, nor indeed take it for yourself, for fear you may be entrapped by it, for it is a thing hated by your God. You must not bring a detestable thing into your house and actually become a thing devoted to destruction like it. You should thoroughly loathe (hate) it and absolutely detest it, because it is something devoted to destruction.         8   Every commandment I am commanding you today, you should be careful to keep, in order that you may continue living and indeed multiply and go in and own the land about which God swore to your ancestors.    You must remember all the way that your God made you walk these 40 years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, to put you to the test so as to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not. So he humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you with the manna, which neither you had known nor your fathers had known, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live but by every expression word of God's mouth does man live. Your mantle, clothes did not wear out upon you, nor did your foot become swollen these 40 years. You well know with your own heart that just as a man corrects his son, your God was correcting you. You must keep the commandments of your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of torrent valleys of water, springs and watery deep issuing forth in the valley plain and in the mountainous region, a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil olives and honey, a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land the stones of which are iron and out of the mountains of which you will mine copper.  When you have eaten and satisfied yourself, you must also bless your God for the good land that he has given you.  Watch out for yourself that you may not forget your God so as not to keep his commandments and his judicial decisions and his statutes that I am commanding you today, for fear that you may eat and indeed satisfy yourself, and you may build good houses and indeed live in them, and your herd and your flock may increase, for silver and gold may increase for you, and all that is yours may increase -- and your heart indeed be lifted up and you may indeed forget your God, who brought  

 

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you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, who caused you to walk through the great and fear-inspiring wilderness, with poisonous serpents and scorpions and with thirsty ground that has no water--who brought forth water for you out of the stony rock--who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which your father had not known, in order to humble you and in order to put you to the test so as to do you good in your afterdays--and you do say in your heart, 'My own power and the full might of my own hand have made this wealth for me.' You must remember your God, because he is the giver of power to you to make wealth, in order to carry out his covenant that he swore to your forefathers, as at this day. It must occur that if you should at all forget your God and you should actually walk after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I do bear witness against you today that you people will absolutely perish. Like the nations that God is destroying from before you, that is the way you will perish, because you will not listen to the voice of your God.             9  "Hear O Israel, you are today crossing the Jordan to go in and dispossess/disown nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified to the heavens,  a people great and tall, the sons of Anakim, about whom you yourself have known and you yourself have heard it said, 'Who can make a firm stand before the sons of Anak?     And you well know today that your God is crossing before you.  A consuming fire he is.  He will destroy them, and he himself will subdue them before you and you must disown them and destroy them speedily, just as God has spoken to you.  Don't say in your heart when your God pushes them away from before you this, 'It was for my own righteousness that God has brought me in to take possession of this land,' whereas it is for the wickedness of these nations that God is driving them away from before you.  It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take ownership of their land, in fact, it is for the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them away from before you, and in order to carry out the word that God swore your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.    You must know that it is not for your righteousness that your God is giving you this good land to own it, for you are a stiff-necked people (stubborn, selfish, uncompromising).  Remember--Do not forget how you have provoked your God in the wilderness.  From the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until your coming to this place you people have proved rebellious in your behavior with God.  Even in Horeb you provoked God to anger so that God got enraged at you to the point of destroying you.  When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that God had concluded with you, and I kept living in the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, (I neither ate bread nor drank water)  then God gave me the 2 tablets of stone written upon with God's finger, and upon them were all the words that God 

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had spoken with you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation.  It was about at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights God gave me the 2 tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant, and God proceeded to say to me, 'Get up, go down quickly from here, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted ruinously.  They have turned away quickly from the way about which I commanded them.  They have made themselves a molten image.  God went on to say this to me, 'I have seen this people, and look! it is a stiff necked (not listening) people.  Let me alone that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under the heavens, and let me make you a nation mightier and more populous than they are.'  After that I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire, and the 2 tablets of the covenant were in both my hands.  Then I looked, and there you had sinned against your God.  You had made yourselves a molten calf.  You had turned away quickly from the way about which God had commanded you.  At that I took hold of the 2 tablets and flung them down from both my hands and shattered them before your eyes.   I proceeded to prostrate myself before God, as at first, 40 days and 40 nights.  I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed in doing evil in the eyes of God so as to offend him.  For I was scared because of the hot anger with which God had got resentful at you to the point of destroying you.  However, God listened to me also that time.   At Aaron too, God got very enraged to the point of destroying him, but I made supplication (begging earnestly) also in behalf of Aaron at that particular time.  Your sin that you had made, the calf, I took, and I proceeded to burn it in the fire and to crush it, grinding it thoroughly until it had become fine like dust--after which I threw its dust into the flood that was descending (coming down) from the mountain.  Further at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibrothhattaavah you proved yourselves provokers of God to anger.  When God sent you out of Kadeshbarnea, saying-- 'Go up and take the land that I certainly shall give you!' then you behaved rebelliously against the order of your God, and you did not exercise faith toward him and did not listen to his voice.  You have proved yourselves rebellious in behavior with God from the day of my knowing you.  So I kept prostrating myself before God 40 days and 40 nights, for I prostrated myself because God talked of destroying you.  I began to make supplication to God and to say--'O Sovereign Lord God, do not bring to ruin your people, even your private properties whom you redeemed with your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Do not turn your face to the hardness of his people and their wickedness and their sin, for fear the land out of which you brought us may say--"Because God was unable to bring them into the land that he had promised them, and because he hated them he brought them out to put them to death in 

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 the wilderness.   They are too, your people and your private property whom you brought out with your great power and our outstretched arm.              10     At that particular time God said to me-- 'Carve for yourself 2 tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me into the mountain, and you must make an ark of wood for yourself.  I shall write upon the tablets the words that appeared on the 1st tablets, which you shattered, and you must place them in the ark.'  So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved 2 tablets of stone like the 1st ones and went up into the mountain, and two 2 tablets were in my hand.  Then he wrote upon the tablets the same writing as the 1st, the Ten Words, which God had spoken to you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation--after which God gave them to me.  Then I turned and went down from the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark that I had made, that they might continue there, just as God commanded me.  The sons of Israel pulled away from Beeroth Benejaakan for Moserah.  There Aaron died, and he got to be buried there, and Eleazar his son began to act as priest instead of him.  From there they pulled away for Gudgodah  and from  Gudgodah for Jotbathah, a land of torrent valleys running with water.  At that particular time God separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of God's covenant, to stand before God for ministering to him and to bless in his name until this day.  That is why Levi has come to have no share and inheritance with his brothers.  God is his inheritance, just as your God had said to him.  And I --I stayed in the mountain the same as the first days, 40 days and 40 nights, and God proceeded to listen to me also on that occasion.  God did not want to bring you to ruin.  The God said to me--'Get up, go before the people for a pulling away, that they may go in and take the land that I have sworn to their ancestors to give to them.   Now O Israel, what is your God asking of you but to fear your God, so as to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve your God with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments of God and his statutes that I am commanding you today, for your good?   Behold, to your God belong the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that is in it.  Only to your ancestors did God get attached so as to love them, so that he chose their offspring after them, even you, out of all the peoples, this day.  You must circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and not harden your necks any longer.  For your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the God great, mighty and fear-inspiring, who treats none with partiality nor accepts a bribe, executing judgment for the fatherless boy and the widow and loving the alien resident so as to give him bread and a mantle.  You too must love the alien resident, for you became alien residents in Egypt. 

 

 

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Jehovah your God you should fear.  Him you should serve and to Him you should cling and by His name you should make sworn statements.  He is One for you to praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great fear-inspiring things that your eyes have seen.  With 70 souls your ancestors went down to Egypt, and how your God has constituted you like the stars of the heavens for multitude.              11  And you must love your God and keep your obligation to him and his statutes and his judicial decisions and his commandments always.  And you well know today (for I don't address your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of your God, his greatness, his strong hand and his outstretched arm, nor his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt and to all his land--nor what he did to the military forces of Egypt, to his horses and his war chariots against the faces of which he made the waters of the Red Sea overflow when they were chasing after them, and God proceeded to destroy them till this day--nor what he has done to you in the wilderness until your coming to this place--nor what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, when  the earth opened its mouth and proceeded to swallow them up and their households and their tents and every existing thing that stepped after them in he midst of all Israel)--for your eyes were the ones seeing all the great deeds of God that he did.   

And you must keep the whole commandment that I am commanding you today, in order that you may grow strong and may indeed enter in and take the land to which you are crossing to take ownership of it, and in order that you may lengthen your days on the soil that God swore for your ancestors to give to them and their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.  For the land to which you are going to take, it is not like the land of Egypt out of which you came, where you used to sow your seed and you had to do irrigating (supply water) with your foot, like garden of vegetables.  But the land to which you are crossing to own, is a land of mountains and valley plains.  Of the rain of the heavens it drinks water, a land that your God is caring for.  The eyes of your God are constantly upon it, from the beginning of the year to close of the year.   It must occur that if you will without fail obey my commandments that I am commanding you today so as to love your God and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul, I also shall certainly give rain for your land at its appointed time, autumn rain and spring rain, and you will indeed gather your grain and your sweet wine and your oil.   And I shall certainly give vegetation in your field for your domestic animals, and you will indeed eat and be satisfied.  Watch out for yourselves for fear your heart may be tempted, and you do turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them, and God's anger does burn against you, and he does shut up the heavens so that no rain will occur and the  

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ground will not give its produce and you have to perish speedily from off the good land that God is giving you.   You must apply these words of mine to your heart and your soul and bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they must serve as a frontlet band between your eyes.    You must also teach them to your sons, so as to speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.  You must write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates, in order that your sons may be many on the soil that God swore to your ancestors to give to them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.  For if you strictly keep all this commandment that I am commanding you so as to do it, to love your God, to walk in all his ways and to cling to him.  God also must drive away all these nations on account of you, and you will certainly dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you are.  Every place on which the sole of your foot will tread will become yours.  From the wilderness up to Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea your boundary will become.  No man will make a firm stand against you.  The dread of you and the fear of you your God will put before the face of all the land on which you will tread, just as he has promised you.   See, I am putting before  you today blessing and malediction (curse), the blessing, provided you will obey the commandments of your God that I am commanding you today--and the malediction, if you will not obey the commandments of your God and you do turn away from the way about which I am commanding you today, so as to walk after other gods whom you have not known.   It must occur that when your God brings you into the land to which you are going to own it, you must also give the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the malediction upon Mount Ebal.    Are they not on the side of the Jordan toward the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, in front of Gilgal, beside the big trees of Moreh?  For you are crossing the Jordan to go in and own the land that your God is giving you, and you must take possession of it and live in it.  You must be careful to carry out all the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am putting before you today.      12   These are the regulations and the judicial decisions that you should be careful to carry out in the land that God of your ancestors will certainly allow you to take possession of, all the days that you are alive on the soil.  You should absolutely destroy all the places where the nations whom you are dispossessing have served their gods, on the tall mountains and the hills and under every luxuriant tree.  And you must pull down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars, and you should burn their scared poles in the fire and cut down the graven images of their gods, and you must destroy their names from that place. 

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 "You must not do that way to God your Jehovah, but to the place that your God will choose out of all your tribes to place his name there, to have it reside, you will seek, and there you must come.  There you must bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your 10th parts and the contribution of your hand and your vow offerings and your voluntary offerings and the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock.   There you must eat before your God and rejoice in every undertaking (pledge) promise of yours, you and your households, because your God has blessed you.   You must not do according to all that we are doing here today, each one whatever is right in his own eyes, because you have not yet come into the resting-place and the inheritance that your God is giving you.  You must cross the Jordan and live in the land that your God is giving you as a possession, and he will certainly give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you will indeed live in security.  It must occur that the place that your God will choose to have his name live there is where you will bring all about which I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your 10th parts and the contribution of your hand and every choice of your vow offerings that you will vow to God.  You must rejoice before your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your man slaves and your slave girls and the Levite who is inside your gates, because he has no share or inheritance with you.  Watch out for yourself for fear you may offer up your burnt offerings in any other place you may see.  But in the place that God will choose in one of your tribes is where you should offer up  your burnt offering and there you should do all that I am ordering you.   Only whenever your soul craves it you may slaughter, and you must eat meat according to the blessing of your God that he has given you, inside all your gates.  the unclean one and the clean one may eat it, like the gazelle (antelope-deer like animal) and like the stag (male deer).   Only the blood you must not eat.  On the earth you should pour it out like water.  You will not be allowed to eat inside your gates the 10th part of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil or the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock or any of your vow offerings that you will vow or your voluntary offerings or the contribution of your hand.   But before your God you will eat it, in the place that your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and your slave girl and the Levite who is inside our gates and you must rejoice before your God in every undertaking of yours.   Watch out for yourself that you may not abandon the Levite all your days on your soil.  When your God will widen out your territory just as he has promised you, and you will be certain to say, 'Let me eat meat, because your soul craves to eat meat, whenever your soul craves it you may eat meat.   In case the place that your God will choose to put his name there should be far away from you, you must then slaughter some of your herd of some of your flock that God 

 

 

 has given you, just as I have ordered you, and you must eat inside your gates whenever your soul craves it.   Only  in the way that the gazelle and the stag may be eaten, so you may eat it--the unclean one and the clean one together may eat it.  Simply the firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the soul and you  must not eat the soul with the flesh.  You must not eat it.  You should pour it out upon the ground as water.  You must not eat it, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you, because you will do what is right in God's eyes.     Merely your holy things that will become yours, and your vow offerings you should carry, and you must come to the place that God will choose.  You must render up your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of your God and the blood of your sacrifices should be poured against the altar of your God, the flesh you may eat.  Watch and you must obey all these words that I am commanding you, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you to time indefinite because you will do what is good and right in the eyes of your God.   When your God will cut off from before you the nations to whom you are going to dispossess them, you must also dispossess them and live in their land.  Watch out for yourself for fear you may be entrapped after them, after they have been destroyed from before you, and for fear you may inquire respecting their gods, saying, 'How was it these nations used to serve their gods?  And I, yes, I will do the same way.'   You must not do that way to your God, for everything detestable to God that he does hate-- they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they regularly burn in the fire to their gods.  Every word that I am ordering you is what you should be careful to do.  You must not add to it nor take away from it.          13   In case a prophet of a dreamer of a dream arises in your midst and does give you a sign or a warning, and the sign of the omen does come true of which he spoke to you, saying,--'Let us walk after other gods, whom you have not known, and let us serve them, you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to the dreamer of that dream, because your God is testing you to know whether you are loving your God with all your heart and all your soul.  After your God you should walk, and him you should fear, and his commandments you should keep and to his voice you should listen, and him you should serve, and to him you should cling.  And that prophet or that dreamer of the dream should be put to death, because he has spoken of revolt against your God, who has brought you out of Egypt and has redeemed you from the house of slaves, to turn you away from the way in which your God has commanded you to walk, and you must clear out what is evil from your midst.  In case your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or your cherished wife or your companion who is like your own soul, should try to allure you to secrecy, saying--'Let us go and serve 

 

 

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 other gods, whom you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, some of the gods of the peoples who are all around you, the ones near you or those far away from you, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, you must not accede (submit, yield) to his wish or listen to him, nor should your eye feel sorry for him, nor must you feel compassion, nor cover him protectively, but you should kill him without fail. Your hand first of all should come upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. And you must stone him with stones, and he must die, because he has sought to turn you away from your God Jehovah, who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.   Then all Israel will hear and become afraid, and they will not do anything like this bad thing again in your midst.   In case you hear it said in one of your cities, which your God is giving you to live there.  'Good for-nothing men have gone out from your midst that they may try to turn away the people of their city, saying--"Let us go and serve other gods" whom you have not known,' you must also search and investigate and inquire thoroughly, and if the thing is established as the truth, this detestable thing has been done in your midst, you should without fail strike the people of that city with the edge of the sword.  Devote it and everything that is in it, and its domestic animals, to destruction at the edge of the sword.  All its spoil you should collect into the middle of its public square, and you must burn in the fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to your God, and it must become a heap of ruins to time indefinite.  It should never be rebuilt.  Nothing at all should stick to your hand of the thing made sacred by ban (forbid), in order that God may turn away from his burning anger and may indeed give you mercy and he may certainly show you mercy and multiply you, just as he has sworn to you ancestors.   For you should listen to the voice of your God by keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, so as to do what is right in the eyes of your God.           14    Sons you are of Jehovah your God.  You must not make cuttings upon yourselves or impose baldness on your foreheads for a dead person.  For you are a holy people to your God, and God has chosen you to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.   You must eat no detestable thing of any sort.   This is the sort of animal that you may eat--the bull, the sheep and the goat, the stag and gazelle and roebuck (roe deer) and wild goat and antelope and wild sheep and chamois (agile goat-antelope), and every animal that splits the hoof and that forms a cleft into two hoofs, chewing the cud among animals.  It you may eat.  Only this sort you must not eat out of those that chew the cud or that split the hoof.  The cloven-- the camel and the hare and the rock badger (rock rabbit), because they are chewers of the cud but do not split the hoof.  They are unclean for you.  The pig also, because it is a splitter of  the hoof but there is no cud.  It is unclean for you.  None of their flesh must you eat, and their carcasses you must not touch.  This sort out of everything that is in the waters you may eat--everything that has fins and   

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 scales you may eat.  And everything that has no fins and scales you must not eat.  It is unclean for you.  Any clean bird you may eat.  But these are the ones of which you must not eat--the eagle and the osprey (similar to hawk) and the black vulture, the red kite and the black kite, the glede according to its kind, and every raven according to its kind, the ostrich, the owl and the gull, the falcon according to its kind, the little owl and the long-eared owl and the swan, the pelican, the vulture and the cormorant, the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.  And every winged swarming creature is unclean for you.  They should not be eaten.  Any clean flying creature you may eat.   You must not eat any body already dead.  To the alien resident who is inside your gates you may give it, and he must eat it, or there may be a selling of it to a foreigner, because you are a holy people to your God.  You must not boil a kid (young goat) in its mother's milk.  Without fail you should give a 10th of  all the produce of your seed, that which comes forth of the field year by year.  And before your God, in the place that he will choose to have his name live there, you must eat the 10th part of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock--in order that you may learn to fear your God always.  Now in case the journey should be too long for you, because you will not be able to carry it, since the place that your God will choose to place his name there will be too far away for you, because your God will bless you, you must then turn it into money, and you must wrap the money up in your hand and travel to the place that your God will choose.  You must also give the money for whatever your soul may crave in the way of cattle and sheep and goats and wine and intoxicating liquor and anything that your soul may ask of you--and you must eat there before your God and rejoice, you and your household.  And the Levite who is inside your gates, you must not abandon him, for the he has no share or inheritance with you.  At the end of  3  years you will bring out the entire 10th part of your produce in that year--and you must deposit it inside your gates.  And the Levite, because he has no share or inheritance with you, and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are inside your gates, must come, and they must eat and satisfy themselves--in order that your God may bless you in every deed of your hand that you will do.            15     At the end of every 7 years you should make a release.   This is the manner of the release--there will be a releasing by every creditor of the debt that he may let his fellow incur.  He should not insists his fellow or his brother for payment, because a release to God must be called.  The foreigner you may insist for payment, but whatever of yours may prove to be with your brother let your hand release.  However, no one should come to be poor among  you, because God will without fail bless you in the land that your God is giving you as an inheritance to take to own it, only if you will without fail listen to the 

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 voice of your God so as to be careful to do all this commandment that I am commanding you today.  For your God will indeed bless you just as he has promised you, and you will certainly lend on pledge to many nations, whereas you yourself will not borrow--and you must dominate over many nations, whereas over you they will not dominate.   In case some one of your brothers becomes poor among you in one of your cities, in your land that your God is giving you, you must not harden your heart or be closefisted toward your poor brother.  For you should  generously open your hand to him and by all means lend him on pledge as much as he needs, which he is in need of.  Watch out for yourself for fear a base word should come to be in your heart, saying--'The 7th year, the year of the release, has come close', and your eye should indeed become ungenerous toward your poor brother, and you should give him nothing, and he has to call out to God against you, and it has become a sin on your part.  You should by all means give to him, and your heart should not be stingy in your giving to him, because on this account your God will bless you in every deed of yours and in every undertaking of yours.  For someone poor will never cease to be in the midst of the land,  that is why I am commanding you, saying--'You should generously open up your hand to your afflicted (troubled) and poor brother in your land.'   In case there should be sold to you your brother, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you 6 years, then in the 7th year you should send him out from you as one set free.  In case you should send him out from you as one set free, you must not send him out empty-handed.  You should surely equip him with something from your flock and your threshing floor and your oil and wine-press.  Just as your God has blessed you, you should give to him.   And you must remember that you became a slave in Egypt and your God proceeded to redeem you.  That is why I am commanding you this thing today.  It must occur that in case he says to you--'I will not go out from your company because he does love you and your household, since it was well with him while with you, you must also take an needle and put it through his ear and to the door and he must become your slave to time indefinite.  To your slave girl you should also do this way.  It should not be some thing hard in your eyes when you send him out from your company as one set free--because for double the value of a hired laborer he served you 6 years, and your God has blessed you in everything that you would do.  Every male 1stborn that will be born in your herd and in your flock you should sanctify to your God.  You must do no service with the 1stborn of your bull, nor shear the 1stborn of your flock.  Before your God you should eat it year by year in the place that God will choose, you and your household.    In case there should prove to be in it a defect, being lame or blind, any bad defect, you must not sacrifice it to your God.   Inside your gates you should eat it, the unclean one and the clean one together, like the gazelle and like the stag.  Only its blood you must not eat.  Upon    

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the earth you should pour it out like water.       16   Let there be an observing of the month of Abib and you must celebrate the passover to your God, because in the month of Abib your God brought you out of Egypt by night.  You must sacrifice the passover to your God, of the flock and of the herd, in the place that God will choose to have his name live there.  You must eat nothing leavened along with it for 7 days.  You should eat along with it unfermented cakes, the bread of affliction, because it was in haste that you came out of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of Egypt all the days of your life.  No sourdough should be seen with you in all your territory 7 days, neither should any of the animal, which you will sacrifice in the evening on the 1st day, stay all night until the morning.  You will not be allowed to sacrifice the passover in any one of your cities that your God is giving you.  But at the place that your God will choose to have his name live there, you should sacrifice the passover in the evening as soon as the sun sets, at the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.  You must do the cooking and the eating in the place that your God will choose, and in the morning you must turn around and go to your own tents.   6 days you should eat unfermented cakes, and on the 7th day there will be a solemn (formal and dignified) assembly to your God.  You must do no work.  7 weeks you should count for yourself.  From when the sickle is 1st put to cut the standing grain you will start to count 7 weeks.  Then you must celebrate the festival of weeks to your God, according to the voluntary offering of your hand that you will give, just as your God may bless you.  You must rejoice before your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and girl, and the Levite who is inside your gates and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place that your God will choose to have his name live there.  You must remember that you became a slave in Egypt, and you must observe and carry out these regulations.   The festival of booths you should celebrate for yourself 7 days when you make an ingathering from your threshing floor (separating at harvest) and your oil and winepress.  You must rejoice during your festival, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and girl, and the Levite and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are inside your gate.  7 days you will celebrate the festival to your God in the place that God will choose, because your God will bless you in all your produce and in every deed of your hand, and you must become nothing but joyful.  3 times in the year every male of yours should appear before your God in the place that he will choose--in the festival of the unfermented cakes and in the festival of weeks and in the festival of booths, and none should appear before God empty handed.   The gift of each one's hand should be in proportion to the blessing of your God that he has given you.  

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"You should set judges and officers for yourself inside all your gates that God is giving you by your tribes and they must judge the people by righteous judgments.  You must not pervert judgement.  You must not be partial or accept a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise ones and distorts the words of the righteous ones.  Justice--justice you should pursue, in order that you may keep alive and may indeed take ownership of the land that your God is giving you.  You must not for yourself plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole near the altar of your God Jehovah that you will make for yourself.  Neither should you set up for yourself a sacred pillar the thing God hates indeed.        17     You must not sacrifice a bull or a sheep with a defect, anything bad--because it is something hateful to your God.   In case there should be a man or a woman found in your midst in one of your cities who practices what is bad in the eyes of your God as to overstep his covenant, and he should go and worship other gods or bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, a thing that I have not commanded, and it has been told to you and you heard it, and have searched thoroughly, and look! the thing has been established as the truth, this hateful, detestable thing has been done in Israel!  You must also bring that man or woman who has done this bad thing out to the gates, and yes, that man or that woman you must stone, such one with stones, and such one must die.  At the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, the one dying must be put to death. He will not be put to death at the mouth of 1 witness.  The hand of witnesses    1st of all should come upon him to put him to death, and hand of all people afterward, and you must clear out what is bad from your midst.  In case a matter for judicial decision is too extraordinary for you in which there was a blood shed (murder) in which a legal claim has been raised, or a violent deed has been committed, matters of disputes, inside your gates, you must also rise and go up to the place that your God will choose, and you must go to your priests, the Levites, to the judge who will be acting in those days, and you must take inquiry, and they must hand down to you the word of judicial decision.  You must do in accordance with the word that they hand down to you from that place that your God will choose, and you must be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.  In accordance with the law that they will point out to you and according to the judicial decisions that they will say to you, you should do.  You must not turn away from the word that they will hand down to you, to the right or to the left.  And the man who will behave with presumptuousness (assume, audacity) in not listening to the priest who is standing to minister there to your God or to the judge, that man must die, and you must clear out what is bad from Israel.  And all the people will hear and become afraid, and 

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they will not act presumptuously anymore.  When you eventually come to the land that your God is giving you, and you have taken ownership of it, and have lived in it and have said -- 'let me set a king over myself like all the nations who are around about me'.  You will without fail set over yourself a king whom your God will choose.  From among your brothers you should set a king over yourself.  You will not be allowed to put over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother.  Only he should not increase horses for himself, nor make people go back to Egypt in order to increase horses, whereas God has said--'never go back again by this way.'  He also must not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn away, nor should he increase silver and gold for himself very much.  It must occur that when he takes his seat on the throne of his kingdom, he must write in a book for himself a copy of this law from that which is in the charge of the priests, the Levites.  It must continue with him and he must read in it all the days of his life in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God so as to keep all the words of this law and these regulations by doing them, that his heart must not glorify itself above his brothers, and he may not turn away from the commandments to the right or to the left, in order that he may lengthen his days upon his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.            18   No share or inheritance with Israel should come to belong to the priests, the Levites, the entire tribe of Levi.  The offerings made by fire of God, even his inheritance, they should eat.  So no inheritance should come to belong to him in the midst of his brothers.  God is his inheritance just as he has spoken to him.  Now this should continue as due right of the priests from the people, from the one who sacrifice a victim, whether  a bull or a sheep--One must give to the priest the shoulder blade, the jaws and the stomach.  The first of your grain. your new wine and your oil, and first of your shorn wool of your flock you should give him.  He is the one whom your God has chosen out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons, always.  In case the Levite goes out of one of your cities of all Israel, where he had resided  for a while, and he does come because of any craving of his soul to the place that God will choose, he will also minister in the name of God his Jehovah the same as all his brothers, the Levites, who are standing there before God.  An equal share he should eat, besides what he gets from things he sells of his ancestral goods.  When you are entered into the land that your God is giving you, you must not learn to do according to the detestable things of those nations.  There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone employs divination, practicer of magic, or anyone who looks for omens or sorcerer (witch), or one who binds others with spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of   the dead.  For everybody 

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doing these things is something hateful to God and on account of these hateful things, your God is driving them away from before you.  You should prove yourself faultless with your God.  For these nations whom you are disowning, used to listen to those practicing magic and to those who divine, but as for you -- your God has not given you anything like this.   A prophet from your own midst, from your brothers, like me, is what your God will rise up for you--to him you people should listen--in response to all that you asked of your God in Horeb on the day of the congregation, saying--'Do not let me hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire don't let me see anymore so I may not die.  At that God said to me--'They have done right speaking what they did.   A prophet I will rise up from midst of their brothers, like you, and I will indeed put words in his mouth, and he will certainly speak to them all that I shall command him.  It must occur that the man who will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I shall myself require an account from him.  However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.  In case you should say in your heart--"how would we know the word that God has not spoken?" when the prophet speaks in the name of God  Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true--that is the word that God did not speak.  With presumptuousness (unjustified claims) the prophet spoke it.  You must not get frightened at him.'           19   When your God cuts off the nations whose land your God is giving you, and you have disowned them and have lived in their cities and houses, you will set apart 3 cities in the midst of your land that your God is giving you to own it.  You will prepare yourself the way and you must divide up the territory of your land that your God proceeded to give you as possession into 3 parts, it must be for any manslayer (killer) to flee there.  Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and has to live--When he strikes a fellowman without knowing it and he is no hater of him formerly or when he goes with fellowman into the woods to gather wood and his hand has been raised to strike with ax to cut the tree, but the iron has slipped off from wooden handle and it hits fellowman and he died.  He himself should flee to one of these cities and must live.  Otherwise the avenger of blood may (because his heart is hot) chase after manslayer and actually overtake him, since the way is great--and indeed he may strike his soul fatally, whereas there is no sentence of death for him because he was no hater of him formerly.  That is why I am ordering you, saying--'3 cities you will set apart for yourself'  And your God widens out your territory according to what he swore to your ancestors, and he has given you all the land that he promised to give to your ancestors, because you will keep all this commandment that I am commanding 

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you today by doing it, to love your God Jehovah and walk in his ways always. then you must add 3 other cities for yourself to these 3, that no innocent blood will be spilled in midst of your land that your God is giving you as inheritance, and no bloodguilt has to be upon you. But in case there should be a man hating his fellowman, and he has lain in wait for him and has risen up against him and struck his soul fatally and he died, and the man has fled to one of these cities, older men of his city must then send and take him from there, and they must deliver him into the land of the avenger of blood and he must die. Your eye should not feel sorry for him and you must clear away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that you may have good. You must not move back the boundary marks of your fellowman, when the ancestors will have set the boundaries in your inheritance that you will inherit in the land that your God is giving you to take ownership of it. No single witness should rise up against a man respecting any error or any sin, in the case of any sin that he may commit.  At the mouth of 2 witnesses or at the mouth of 3 witnesses the matter should stand good.  In case of a witness scheming violence should rise up against a man to bring a charge of revolt against him, the 2 men who have the dispute must also stand before God, before the priests, judges who will be acting in those days. Judges must search thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and has brought a false charge against his brother, you must also do to him just as he had schemed to do to his brother, and you must clear away bad from your midst. So those who remain will hear and be afraid, and they never again do anything bad like this in your midst. Your eye should not feel sorry--soul will be for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.       20   In case you go out to battle against your enemies and you actually see horses and war chariots, a people more numerous than you, you must not be afraid of them--For your God is with you, who brought you up out of Egypt.   It must occur that when you have drawn near to the battle, the priest must also approach and speak to the people. He must say to them--"Hear O Israel, you are drawing near today to the battle against your enemies.  Do not let your hearts be timid.  Do not be afraid and run in panic or shudder because of them, for your God is marching with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you.'  The officers too must speak to the people, saying--"Who is the man that has built a new house and has not inaugurated it?  Let him go and return to his house, for fear he may die in the battle and another man should inaugurate it.  Who is the man who has planted a vineyard not begun to use it?  Let him go and return to his house, for fear that he may die in the battle and another man should begin to use it.  Who is the man that has become  engaged to a woman and has not taken her?  Let him go and return to his house, for fear he may 

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die in the battle and another man should take her.'  And the officer should speak further to the people and say--'Who is the man that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, that he may not cause the hearts of his brothers to melt as his own heart.  It must occur that when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they must also appoint the chiefs of the armies at the head of the people.  In case you draw near to a city to fight against it, you must also announce it terms of peace.  It must occur that if it gives peaceful answer to you and opened up to you, it must even occur that all the people found in it should become yours for forced labor, and they must serve you.  But if it does not make peace with you, and actually makes war with you and you have to besiege it.  Your God will certainly also give it into your hand, and you must strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.  Only the women and little children and domestic animals and everything that happens to be in the city, all its spoil (damage, remainder of battle) you will plunder (raid) for yourself, and you must eat the spoil of your enemies, whom your God has given you.  That is the way you will do to all the cities very far away from you that are not of the cities of these nations.  It is only of these cities of these people that your God is giving you as inheritance that you must not keep any breathing thing alive, because you should without fail devote them to destruction, Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites,  just as your God has ordered you, in order that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things, which they have done to their gods, and  you may indeed sin against your God Jehovah.  In case you lay siege to a city many days by fighting against it so as to capture it, you must not ruin its trees by wielding an ax against them--for you should eat from them, and you must not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man to be sieged by you?  Only a tree that you know that is not a tree for food, it is the one you should ruin, and you must cut it down and build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you, until it falls.         21      In case someone is found slain (killed) on the ground that your God is giving you to own it, fallen on the field, and it has not become known who struck him fatally, your older men and your judges must also go out and measure to the cities that are all around the killed one--and it must prove to be city nearest to the killed one.  And older men of that city must take a young cow of the herd that has not been worked with, that has not pulled in a yoke--and older men of that city must lead the  young cow down to a torrent valley running with water in which there was customarily no tilling or sowing of seed, and they must break the neck of young cow there in the torrent valley.  The priests the sons of Levi must approach, because they are the ones your God has chosen to minister to him and to bless in the name of Jehovah and at whose mouth every dispute over every violent deed should be disposed of.  Then all older men of that city who are nearest to the killed one should wash their hands over the young cow, the neck of 

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   which was broken in the torrent valley, and they must answer and say--'Our hands did not shed this blood, neither did our eyes see it shed.  Do not set it to the account of your people Israel, whom you redeemed.  O God, and do not put innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.  And the bloodguilt must not be set to their account.  And you--you will clear away the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, because you will do what is right in God's eyes.  In case you go out to the battle against your enemies and your God has given them into your hand, and you have carried them away captive, and you have seen among the captives a woman beautiful in form, and got attached to her and taken her as a wife, you must then bring her into midst of your house.  She must shave her head and attend to her nails, and remove the mantle of her captivity from off  her and live in your house and weep for her father and mother for whole moon month, and after that you should have relations with her, and you must own her as your bride and she must become your wife.  And it must occur that if you found no delight in her, then you must send her away, agreeably to her own soul, but you must by no means sell her for money.  

You must not deal unjustly cruel or harshly after you have humiliated her,  In case a man comes to have 2 wives, the one loved and other hated, and they--loved one and hated one gave birth to sons to him and the firstborn was from hated one, it must also occur that in the day that he gives as an inheritance to his sons what he happens to have, he will not be allowed to constitute the son of loved one his   1stborn at the expense of hated one's son, the   1stborn.  For he should recognize as the firstborn the hated one's son by giving him 2 parts  in everything he is found to have, because that one is the beginning of his generative power.  The right of firstborn's position belongs to him.  In case a man has a son who is stubborn and rebellious--not listening to voices of his father  or mother and have corrected him but he will not listen to them, his father and mother also must take hold of him and bring him out to the older men of his city and to the gate of his place and they must say to the older men of his city--'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he is not listening to our voices being a glutton (greedy, excessive eating) and a drunkard.  Then all the men of the city must pelt him with stones and he must die.  So you must clear away what is bad from your midst, and all Israel will hear and become afraid.  In case there comes to be in a man a sin deserving  the sentence of death, and you have hanged him upon a stake, his dead body should not stay all night on the stake, but you should by all means bury him on that day because something cursed by God is the one who is hanged and you must not defile your soil which your God is giving you as inheritance.            22       You must not see the bull of your brother or his sheep straying about and deliberately withdraw from them.  You should by all means lead them back to your brother.  And if your brother is not near    

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you and you have not got to know him, you must also bring it home into the midst of your house and it must continue with you until your brother has searched for it.  And you must return it to him,   That is the way too that you will do with his donkey, his mantle and anything that is lost of your brother's, which has lost from him, which you have found.  You will be not allowed to withdraw yourself.  You must not see the donkey of your brother or his bull fall down on the road and deliberately withdraw from them.  You should by all means help him raise them up.  No clothes of abled-bodied man be put upon a woman, neither should an abled-bodied man wear the mantle of a woman--for anybody doing these things are something detestable (hateful) to your God.  In case a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the earth with young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting upon the young ones or the eggs, you must not take the mother along with the offspring, you should by all means send mother away, but may take offspring for yourself, in order that it may go well with you, and you may indeed lengthen your days.    In case you build a new house, you must also make a wall for your roof, that you may not place bloodguilt upon your house because someone falling might fall from it.  You must not sow your vineyard with 2 sorts of seed, for fear that the full produce of the seed that you might sow and the product of the vineyard may be forfeited (lose, deprived) to the sanctuary (holy place that provides protection).   You must not sow with a bull and a donkey together.  You must not wear mixed stuff of wool and linen together.   You must make tassels for yourself on the 4 extremities of your clothing which you cover yourself.  In case a man takes a wife and actually has relations with her and has come to hate her, and he charged her with notorious deeds and brought forth a bad name upon her and said--"This is the woman I have taken, and I proceeded to go near her, and I did not find evidence of virginity in her, the father of the girl and her mother must also take and bring forth the evidence of girl's virginity to the older men of the city at the gate of it,  and the girl's father must say to the older men--'I gave my daughter as his wife and he went hating her.  And he is charging her with notorious deeds, saying--"I have found your daughter does not have evidence of virginity"  Now this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity'  And they must spread out the mantle before older men of the city.  And older men of that city must take the man and discipline him.  And they must fine him 100 silver shekels (money) and give them to the girl's father, because he brought forth a bad name upon a virgin of Israel and she will continue to be his wife.  He will not be allowed to divorce her all his days.  If, though, this thing has proved to be the truth, evidence of virginity was not found in the girl, they must also bring the girl out to the entrance of her father's house, and the men of the city must pelt her with stones and she must die, because she has committed disgraceful folly in Israel by committing prostitution in the house of her father.  So you must clear  

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​  away what is bad from your midst. In case a man is found lying down with a woman owned by a owner, both of them then must die together--the man lying down with woman and the woman. So you must clear away what is bad out of Israel.  In case there happened to be a virgin girl engaged to a man, and a man actually found her in the city and lay down with her, you must also bring them both out to the gate of that city and pelt them with stones, and they must die-- the girl for the reason that she did not scream in the city, and man for the reason that he humiliated wife of a fellowman. So you must clear away what is evil from your midst. If however, it is in the field that the man found the girl who was engaged, and the man grabbed hold of her and lay down with her, the man who lay down with her also must die by himself, and to the girl you must do nothing. The girl has no sin deserving of death, because just as when a man rises up against his fellowman and indeed murders him, even a soul, so it is with this case.  For it was in the field that he found her.  The girl who was engaged screamed, but there was no one to rescue her. In case a man finds a girl, a virgin who was has not been engaged, and actually sieges her and lies down with her, and they have been found out, the man who lay down with her also must give girl's father 50 silver shekels, and she will become his wife due to the fact that he humiliated her.   He will not be allowed to divorce her all his days.  No man should take his father's wife, that he may not uncover the skirt of his father.                23     No man castrated by crushing his testicles or having his male member cut off may come into the congregation of God.  No illegitimate son may come into the congregation of God.  Even to the 10th generation--none of his may come into the congregation of God.  No Ammonite or Moabite may come into the congregation of God.  Even to the 10th generation--none of theirs may come into the congregation of God to time indefinite, for the reason that they did not come to your aid with bread and water in the way when you are going out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia to call down evil upon you.  Your God did not want to listen to Baalam. but your God changed malediction/curse into a blessing, because your God Jehovah loved you.  You must not hate an Edomite for he is your brother.  You must not hate an Egyptian for you became an alien in his country.   The sons that may be bore to them as the 3rd generation may come for themselves into the congregation of God.  In case you go out into the camp against your enemies, you must also keep yourself from every bad thing.   In case there happens to be in you a man who does not constitute clean, because of the pollution that occurs at night, he must also go outside the camp.  He may not come into the midst of the camp.  It must  occur at the falling of evening--he should wash with water, and at the setting of the  

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sun he may come into the midst of the camp.  And a private place should be at your service outside the camp, and you must go out there.  And a peg should be at your service along with your implements, and it must occur when you squat outside, you must also dig a hole with it and turn and cover your human feces.  For God is walking about within your camp to deliver you, and to abandon your enemies to you, and your camp must prove to be holy--that he may see nothing indecent in you and certainly turn away from accompanying you.  You must not hand over a slave to his master when he escapes from his master to you.  With you he will keep on living in among you in whatever place he may choose in one of your cities, wherever he likes.  You must not maltreat him.   None of the daughters of Israel may become a temple prostitute, neither may anyone of the sons of Israel become a temple prostitute.  You must not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog into the house of your God for any vow, because they are something detestable to your God, even both of them.  You must not make your brother pay interest, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything on which one may claim interest.   You may make a foreigner pay interest, but your brother you must not make pay interest, in order that your God may bless you in every undertaking of yours on the land to which you are going so as to take ownership of it.  In case you vow a vow to your God, you must not be slow about paying it, because your God will without fail require it of you, and it would indeed become a sin on you part.  The utterance of your lips you should keep, and you must do just as you have vowed to your God as a voluntary offering that you spoke of it with your mouth.  In case you go into the standing grain of your fellowman, you must pluck off only the ripe ears with your hand, but the sickle you must not swing to and fro upon the standing grain of your fellowman.           24     In case a man takes a woman and does make her his possession as a wife, it must also occur that if she should find no favor in his eyes because he has found something indecent on her part, he must also write out a certificate of a divorce for her and put it in her hand and dismiss her from his house.  She must go out of his house and go to another man's.  If the latter man has come to hate her and has written out a certificate of a divorce and put it in her hand and dismissed her from his house, or in this case the latter man who took her as his wife should die, the first owner of her who dismissed her will not be allowed to take her back again to become his wife after she has been defiled, for that is something detestable before God, and you must not lead the land that your God is giving you as an inheritance into sin.  In case a man takes a new wife, he should not go out into  

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the army, nor should anything else be imposed onto him.  He should continue exempt at his house for one year, and he must make his wife whom he has taken rejoice.  No one should siege a hand mill or upper grindstone as a pledge, because it is a soul that he is seizing as a pledge.  In case a man is found kidnapping a soul of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he has dealt tyrannically (cruel, harshly) with him and sold him, that kidnapper must also die.  And you must clear away what is bad from your midst.  Be on your guard in the plague of leprosy to take good care and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, will instruct you.  Just as I have ordered them, you should be careful to do.   There should be a remembering of what your God did to the Miriam in the way when you were coming out of Egypt.  In case you lend your fellowman a loan of any sort, you must not enter into his house to take what he has pledged.  You should stand outside, and man to whom you are making a loan should bring the pledge outside to you.  If the man is in trouble, you must not go to bed with his pledge.  You should by all means return the pledge to him as soon as the sun sets, and he must go to bed in his clothes, and he must bless you and it will mean righteousness for you before your God.  You must not defraud (cheat, swindle, deceive) your hired worker who is in trouble and poor, whether of your brothers or of alien residents in your land within your gates.  In his day you should give him his wages, and the sun should not set upon them, because he is in trouble and he is lifting up his soul to his wages that he may not cry to God against you and it must become a sin on your part.  Fathers should not be put to death on account of children and children should not be put to death account of their fathers.  Each one should be put to death for his own sin.   You must not pervert the judgment of alien resident or the fatherless boy and you must not take the clothes of a widow as pledge.   And you must remember you became a slave in Egypt, and your God proceeded to redeem you from there.  That's why I am ordering you to do this thing.   It case you reap your harvest in your field and you have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you must not go back to get it.  It should stay for the alien resident, for the fatherless boy and for the widow.  In case you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not gather the leftovers following up yourself.  They should stay for the alien resident for the fatherless boy and for the widow.   You must remember that you became a slave in the land of Egypt.  That's why I am ordering you to do this thing.            25   In case a dispute arises between men, and they have presented themselves for the judgment, they must also 

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 judge them and pronounce the righteous one righteous and pronounce the wicked one wicked.  It must occur that if the wicked one deserves to be beaten, the judge must also have him laid prostrate (lay face down arms stretched on the ground) and given strokes before him by number to correspond with his wicked deed.  With 40 strokes he may beat him.  He should add none, for fear he should continue to beat him with many strokes in addition to these and your brother is actually disgraced in your eyes.  You must not muzzle a bull while it is threshing (loosening the grains).    In case brothers live together and one of them has died without his having a son, the wife of the dead one should not become a strange man's outside.  Her brother in law should go to her, and he must take her as his wife and perform brother in law marriage with her.  It must occur that the firstborn whom she will bear should succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be wiped out of Israel.  Now if the man finds no delight in taking his brother's widow, his brother's widow must then go up the gate to the older men and say--'My husband's brother has refused to preserve his brother's name in Israel.  He has not consented to perform brother in law marriage with me.'  The older men of his city must call him and speak to him, and he must stand and say--'I have found no delight in taking her.'  At that his brother's widow must approach him before the eyes of the older men and draw his sandal off his foot and spit in his face and answer and say--'That is the way it should be done to the man who will not build up his brother's household.'  His name must be called in Israel 'The house of the one who had his sandal drawn off.'  In case men struggle together with one another, and the wife of the one has come near to deliver her husband out of the hand of the one striking him, and she has thrust out her hand and grabbed hold of him by his privates, you must then amputate her hand.  Your eye must feel no sorrow.  You must not come to have in your bag 2 sorts of weights, a great one and a small one.  You must not have in your house -- 2 sorts of ephahs, great one and small one.  A weight accurate and just you should continue to have.  An ephah (35 liter) accurate and just you should continue to have, in order that your days may become long on the soil that your God is giving you.  For everyone doing these things, every doer of injustice, is something hateful to your God.  There should be remembering of what Amalek did to you in the way when you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you in the way and proceeded to strike in the rear of you all those straggling after you, while you were exhausted and weary, he did not fear God.   It must occur that when your God has given you rest from all of your enemies round about in the land that your God is giving you as an inheritance to take ownership of it, you should wipe out the mention of Amalek from under the heavens.  You must not forget.     26    It must occur that at last you enter into the land that your God is giving you as an inheritance and you have taken it and lived in it, you must also take some of the  1stfruits of all the fruitage of the soil,  

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which you will bring in from the land that your God is giving you, and you must put them in a basket and go to the place that your God will choose to have his name live there. You must come to the priest who will be acting in those days and say to him--'I must report today to your God that I have come into the land that God swore to our ancestors to give to us.' The priest must take the basket out of your hand and deposit it before the altar of your God.  You must answer and say before your God--'My father was a perishing Syrian, and he proceeded to go down to Egypt and to live there as an alien with very few in number, but there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.  The Egyptians went treating us badly and afflicting us and putting hard slavery upon us.   We began to cry out to Jehovah the God of our ancestors and God proceeded to hear our voice-- look on our affliction (suffering), troubles and oppression.   Finally our God brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, outstretched arm and with great fearsomeness and with signs and miracles.  Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.  Now here I have brought the firstfruits of the fruitage of the ground that God has given me.  You must also deposit it before your God and bow down before your God.  You must rejoice over all the good that your God has given you and your household, you and the Levite, and the alien resident who is in your midst.   When you are finish with your tithing (giving 10th of income to the church) the entire 10th of your produce in the 3rd year, the year of the 10th, you must also give it to the Levite, the alien resident, the fatherless boy, and the widow, and they must eat it within the gates and satisfy themselves.  You must say before your God--'I have cleared away what is holy from the house and I have also given it to the Levite, the alien resident, the fatherless boy and the widow, in accord to all the commandment that you ordered me.  I have not overstepped your commandment nor have I forgotten.  I haven't eaten of it during morning nor have I removed any of it while unclean, nor have I given any of it to anyone dead.  I have listen to the voice of my God.  I have done in accord all that you have ordered me.  Do look down from your holy living, the heavens, and bless your people Israel and the soil that you have given us, just as swore to our ancestors, the land flowing with milk and honey.  This is the day your God is ordering you to carry out these regulations and judicial decisions, and you must observe and carry them out with all your heart and soul.  Jehovah you have induced to say today that he will become your God while you walk in his ways and observe his regulations and commandments, judicial decisions and listen to his voice.  As for God, he has induced you to say today that you will become his people, a special property, just as he promised you, that you will observe all his commandments, and that he will put you high above  

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 all the other nations that he has made, resulting in praise and reputation and beauty, while you prove yourself a people holy to your God, just as he has promised.          27      Moses together with the older men of Israel went on to command the people, saying--"There should be an observing of every commandment that I am ordering you today.  It must occur that in the day when you will cross the Jordan into the land that your God is giving you, you must also set up for yourself great stones and whitewash them with lime.  You must write upon them all the words of this law when you have crossed, in order that you may enter into the land that your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, according to what your God of your ancestors has spoken to you.   It must occur when you have crossed the Jordan, you should set up these stones, just as I am ordering you today, in Mount Ebal and you must whitewash them with lime.  You must also build an altar there to your God, an altar of stones.  You must not wield an iron tool upon them.  With whole stones you should build the altar of your God, and you must offer burnt offerings to your God upon it.  You must sacrifice communion sacrifices and eat them there, and you must rejoice before your God.  You must write on the stones all the words of this law, making them quite clear.  Then Moses and the priests, and the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying--Keep silent and listen O Israel.  Today you have become the people of your God Jehovah.  You must listen to the voice of your God and carry out his commandments and his reputations, which I am commanding you today.  Moses went on to command the people on that day, saying--'The following are the ones who  will stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you have crossed the Jordan--Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.  And the following are the ones who will stand for the malediction on Mount Ebal--Reuben, Gad and Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.  Levites must answer and say with raised voice and say to every men of Israel--"Cursed is the man who makes a carved image or a molten statue, a thing hateful to God, a manufacturer of the hands of wood-and-metal worker, and who has put it to a hiding place (All the people must answer and say Amen!)   Cursed is the one who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered the skirt of his father.'    (All the people must say Amen!)  Cursed is anyone who lies down with any beast, animal (All the people must say Amen!)   

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Cursed is the one who lies down with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother (All the people must say Amen!) Cursed is the one who lies down with his mother in law (All the people must say Amen!) Cursed is the one who fatally strikes a fellowman from a hiding place (All the people must say Amen!) Cursed is the one who accepts a bribe to strike a soul (person) fatally, when it is a innocent blood (All the people must say Amen!) Cursed is the one who will not put words of this law in force by  doing them (All the people must say Amen!)            28    It must occur if you without fail listen to the voice your God by being careful to do all his commandments that I am commanding you today, your God will certainly put you high above all other nations of the earth.  All these blessings must come upon you and overtake you, because you keep listening to the voice your God.  Blessed you will be in the city and in the field.  Blessed is the fruit of your belly and fruit of your ground and fruit of  domestic beasts, young of your cattle and offspring of your flock.   Blessed is your basket and your kneading trough.  Blessed you will be when you come in, and blessed you will be when you go out.  God cause your enemies who will rise up against you to be defeated before you.  By  one way they will come out against you, but by 7 ways they will flee before you.  God will decree (mandate) for you blessing on your store supply every pledge of yours, and he will certainly bless you in the land your God is giving you.  God will establish you as holy people to himself, just as he swore to you, because you continue to keep the commandments of your God and you have walked in his ways.  All the peoples on the earth have to see that God's name has been called upon you, and indeed be afraid of you.  God will also make you overflow indeed with prosperity (success, wealth) in the fruit of your belly, and domestic animals and fruitage of your ground, on the ground that your God has swore to your ancestors.  God will open up to you his good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain on the land in its season and to bless every deed of your hand, and you will certainly lend to many nations while yourself will not borrow.  God will indeed put you at the head not on the tail--and you must come to be only on top and you will not come to be on the bottom because you keep obeying the commandments of your God which I am ordering you today to observe and to do.  You must not turn away from all the words that I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to walk after other gods to serve them.   It must occur if you will not listen to the voice your God by taking care to do all his commandments and statutes that I am 

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commanding you today, all these malediction (curse) must also come upon you and overtake you.  Cursed you will be in the city and in the field.  Cursed will be your basket and your kneading trough.  Cursed will be the fruit of your belly, and the fruitage of your ground, the young of your cattle and the offspring of your flock.  Cursed you will be when you come in and cursed you will be when you go out.  God will send upon you the curse, confusion, and rebuke (reproach) in every pledge of yours that you try to carry out, until you have been destroyed and have perished in a hurry because of the badness of your practices in that you have forsaken (abandoned) me.   God will cause a sickness to cling to you until he has exterminated you from off the ground  to which you are to take ownership of it.   God will strike you with tuberculosis, burning fever and inflammation, feverish heat and the sword, scorching, mildew, and they will certainly pursue you until you have perished.  Your skies that are over your head must also become copper, and the earth that is beneath you iron.    God will give you powder and dust as rain of your land.   From the heavens it will come down upon you until you have been destroyed.  God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies.  By  one  way you will go out against them, by 7 ways you will flee before them.  And you must become scary object to all the earth's kingdoms.  Your dead body must become food for every flying creature of the heavens and to the beast of the field, with no one to make them tremble.   God will strike you with boil of Egypt and piles and eczema (rash, itchy inflammation of the skin) and skin eruption, from which you will be not able to be healed.  God will strike you with madness and loss of sight, bewilderment of heart, and you will indeed become the one who gropes about in midday, just as a blind man gropes in gloom (darkness), and you will not make your ways successful, and you must become the only one always who is defrauded and robbed, with no one to save you.     You will become engaged to a woman but another man will rape her.  You will build a house but you will not live in it.  You will plant a vineyard but you will not begin to use it.     Your bull slaughtered before your eyes--but you will not eat any of it.    Your ass will be taken in robbery before your face--but it will not return to you.  Your sheep given to your enemies--but you will have no savior.  Your sons and daughters given to another people and your eyes looking on and yearning for them always--but your hands will be without power.   The fruitage of your ground and all  your production a people will eat whom you have not known and you must become one who is only defrauded and crushed always.    You will certainly become maddened at the sight of your eyes that you will see.  God will strike you with a infectious boil upon both your knees and legs, from which you will not be able to be healed, from sole of your foot to the crown of your head.  God will march you and your    

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king whom you will set up over you to a nation whom you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, and there you will have to serve other gods, of wood and stone.  You must become an object of astonishment, a proverbial saying and a taunt (insult) among all the peoples to whom God will lead you away.   A lot of seed you will take out to the field, but little will you gather, because the locust will devour it.  Vineyards you will plant and certainly cultivate, but you will drink no wine and gather nothing in, because the worm will eat it up.  You will come to have olive trees in all your territory, but you will rub yourself with no oil  because your olives will drop off.  Sons and daughters you will bring forth but they will not continue yours, because they will go off into captivity.  All your trees and fruitage of your ground whirring insects will take in possession.  The alien resident who is in your midst, will ascend (rise up) higher and higher above you, while you -- you keep descend (go down) lower and lower.   He will be the one to lend to you, while you--you will not lend to him.  He will become the head, while you--you become the tail.   All these curse will certainly come upon you, and pursue you and overtake you until you have been destroyed, because you did not listen to your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he commanded you.  They must continue on you and your offspring as a sign and omen to time indefinite, due to the fact that you did not serve God with rejoicing and joy for the heart for the abundance of everything.  You will have to serve your enemies whom your God will send against you with hunger and thirst and nakedness and want of everything, and he will certainly put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.  God will raise up against you far away, at from the end of the earth, just as an eagle pounces, a nation whose language you will not understand, a nation fierce in appearance who will not be partial to an old man or show favor for a young man.   They will certainly eat the fruit of your domestic animals and the fruitage of your ground until you have been destroyed, and they will let no grain, new wine or oil, no young of your cattle or offspring of your flock, remain for you until they have destroyed you.  They will indeed besiege you within all your gates until high and fortified walls in which you are trusting fall in all your land, yes, they will certainly besiege you within all your gates in all your land, which your God has given you.  Then you will have to eat the fruit of the belly, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom your God has given you, because the tightness and stress with which your enemies will hem you in.  As for the very delicate and dainty man among you, his eyes will be evil inclined toward his brother and his cherished wife and remainder of his sons he has remaining, so as not give one of them any of the flesh of his sons that he will eat, because he has nothing at all remaining to him because of tightness and stress with which your enemies will hem you in  within all your gates.  As for the delicate and dainty woman among    

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you who never attempted to set the sole of the foot upon the earth of being a dainty habitat and for delicateness, her eyes will be evil inclined toward her cherished husband and her son and her daughter, even toward her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and toward her sons whom she proceeded to bear, because she will eat them in secrecy for the want of everything because of the tightness and stress with which your enemy will hem you in within your gates.  If you will not take care to carry out all the words of this law that are written in this book so as to fear this glorious and fear inspiring name, even your Jehovah your God.  God will also make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring especially severe, great and long lasting plagues, and infectious and long lasting sicknesses.   He will indeed bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt before which you got scared, and they will certainly hang onto you.  Also, any sickness and any plague that is not written in the book of this law, God will bring them upon you until you have been destroyed.    You will be left with few in number, although you have become like the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of your God.  It must occur that just as God rejoiced over you to do good and to multiply you, so God will rejoice over you to destroy you and you will simply be torn away from off the soil to which you are going to take possession of it.  God will certainly scatter you among all the people from the one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, and there you will have to serve other gods whom you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, wood and stone.   Among those nations you will have no case, nor there prove to be any resting place for the sole of your foot, and there God indeed will give you a trembling heart and failing of the eyes and despair of soul.  You certainly will be in the greatest danger for your life and be in dread night and day, and you will not be sure of your life.   In the morning you will say--'If it only were evening!' and in the evening you will say--'If it only were morning!' because of the dread of your heart with which you will be in dread and because of the sight your eyes that you will see.  God will certainly will bring you back to Egypt by ships by the way about which I have said to you--'You will never see it again.'  and you will have to sell yourselves there to your enemies as slave men and maidservants but there will be no buyer."                  29       These are the words of the covenant that God commanded Moses to conclude with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab aside form the covenant that he had concluded with them in Horeb.  Moses proceeded to call all Israel and to say to them--"You were the ones seeing all that God did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land, the great provings that your eyes saw, those great signs and miracles.  And yet God has not given you a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear down to this day.  'While I kept guiding you 40 years in the wilderness, your garments did not  

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 wear out upon you, and your sandal did not wear out upon your foot.  Bread you did not eat, and wine and intoxicating liquor you did not drink in order that you might know that I am your God.   Eventually you came to this place, and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan proceeded to come out to meet us in battle, but we defeated them.  After that we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and the Gadites and half the tribe of the Manassites.    So you must keep the words of this covenant and do them, in order that you may make everything you will do turn out well.  You are all of you stationed  today before your God, the heads of your tribes, your older men and your officers, every man of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and your alien resident who is in the midst of your camp, from the gatherer of your wood to the drawer of your water.  In order for you to enter into the covenant of your God and his oath, which your God is concluding with you today, for the purpose of establishing you today as his people and that he may prove himself your God, just as he has promised you and just as he has sworn to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Now it is not with you alone that I am concluding this covenant and this oath, but it is with him who is here standing with us today before our God and with those who are not here with us today--for yourselves well know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations through whom you passed.  You used to see their disgusting things and their dungy idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, that were with them--that there may not be among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose heart is turning today away from our God to go and serve the gods of those nations that there may not be among you a root bearing the fruit of a poisonous plant and wormwood.  It must occur that when someone has heard the words of this oath, and he has blessed himself in his heart, saying--'I shall come to have peace, although I will walk in the stubbornness of my heart, with the intention of sweeping away the well watered one along with the thirsty one.  God will not want to forgive him, but then God's anger and his ardor (zeal, passion) will smoke against that man, and all the oath written in this book will certainly settle down on him and God will indeed wipe out his name from under the heavens.  So God will have to separate him for calamity from all the tribes of Israel in accord that is written in this book of the law.  The future generation, your sons who will rise up after you, will be bound to say, also the foreigner who will come from a distant land, even when they have seen the plagues of that land and its maladies with which God has sickened it, sulphur and salt and burning, so that its whole land will not be sown, nor sprout, nor will any vegetation spring up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zebolim which God overthrew in his anger and in his 

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wrath (rage), yes all the nations will be bound to you say--'Why did God do like this to this land?   Why the heat of this great anger?'  Then they will have to say--'It was because they abandoned the covenant (relationship) of God the God their ancestors, which he concluded (ended) with them when he brought them out of Egypt.  They proceeded to go and serve other gods and to bow down to them, gods that they had not known and he had not supported them.  Then God's anger burned against that land by bringing upon it the whole curse (malediction) written in this book.  Hence God uprooted them from off their soil in anger and rage and great indignation (distress). and threw them into another land as at this day.'   The things concealed belong to our God, but that things revealed belong to us and to our sons to time indefinite, that we may carry out all the works of this law.          30  It must occur that when all these words will come upon you, the blessing and the malediction (curse), which I have put before you, and you have brought them back to your heart among all the nations where your God has scattered you, and you have returned to your God and listened to his voice according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and all your soul.  Your God must also bring back your captives and show you mercy and collect you again from all the peoples where your God has scattered you.  If your scattered people should be at the end of the heavens, from there your God will collect you and from there he will take you.  Your God will indeed bring you into the land of which your fathers took possession, and you will certainly take ownership of it, and he will indeed do you good and multiply you more than your fathers.  Your God will have to circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring that you may love your God with all your heart and all your soul for the sake of your life.  Your God will certainly put all these oaths upon your enemies and those who hate you, who have persecuted (oppress, abuse because of religion) you.   As for you, you will turn and certainly listen to the voice of your God and do all his commandments that I am ordering you today.   Your God indeed make you have more than enough in every work of your land, in the fruit of your belly, and the fruit of your domestic animals and the fruitage of your soil, resulting in prosperity, because God will again rejoice over you for good, just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, for you will listen to the voice of your God so as to keep his commandments and his statutes written in this book of the law, because you will return to your God with all your heart and all your soul.  For this commandment that I am commanding you, today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.  It is not in the heavens, so as to result in saying--'Who will ascend (rise) for us into the heavens and get it for us that he may let us hear it that we may do it?  Neither is it on the other side of the sea, so as to result in saying, 'Who will passover for us to the other side of the  

 

 

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 sea and get it for us, that he may let us hear it that we may do it?  For the word is very near you, in your own mouth and in your own heart, that you may do it.  See, I do put before you today life and good, and death and bad.  If you will listen to the commandments of your God, which I am ordering you today, so as to love your God Jehovah, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, statutes, judicial decisions, then you will be bound to keep alive and multiply, and your God will bless you in the land to which you are going to take ownership of it.  But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and you are actually seduced and bow down to other gods and serve them,  I do tell you today you will positively perish.  You will not lengthen your days on the ground which you are crossing the Jordan to take ownership of it.  I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today, that I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the curse, that you may choose life in order to keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving your God, by listening to his voice and sticking to him, for he is your life and length of your days, that you may live upon the ground that God swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them.                         31   Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel and said to them--"120 years old I am today.  I shall no more be allowed to go out and come in as God has said to me--'You will not cross the Jordan.'   Your God is the one crossing before you.  He himself will stimulate these nations from before you, and you must drive them away.  God is the one crossing before you, just as God has spoken.   God will certainly do to them just as he has done to Sihon, Og, the kings of Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.  God has abandoned them to you, and you must do to them according all commandment that I have commanded you.  Be courageous and strong.  Do not be afraid or suffer a shock before them, because your God is the one marching with you.  He will neither desert you or leave you entirely."   Moses proceeded to call Joshua and say to him before the eyes of all Israel--"Be courageous and strong--because you-- you will bring this people into the land that God swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you yourself will give to them as an inheritance.  God is the one marching before you.  He himself will continue with you.  He will neither desert you nor leave you entirely.  Do not be afraid or be terrified.  Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi, the carriers of the ark of God's covenant, and to all the older men of Israel.  Moses went on to command them, said--"At the end of every 7 years, in the appointed time of the year of the release, in the festivals of booths, when  all Israel comes to see the face of your God in the place that he will choose, you will read this law in front of 

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 all Israel in their bearing.  Congregate the people, the men and the women  and the little ones and your alien resident who is within your gates, in order that they may listen and in order that they may learn, as they must fear your God and take care to carry out all the words of this law.  And their sons who have not known should listen, and they must learn to fear your God all the days that you are living upon the soil to which you are crossing the Jordan to take ownership of it."  After that God said to Moses--"Look! the days have drawn near for you to die.  Call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him."  So Moses and Joshua went and stationed themselves in the tent of meeting.  Then God appeared at the tent in the pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud began to stand by the entrance of the tent.  God now said to Moses--"Look!  You are lying down with your forefathers (ancestors), and this people will certainly get up and have immoral se* with foreign gods of the land to which they are going, in their very midst, and they will certainly forsake (abandon) me and break my covenant that I have concluded with them.   At that my anger will indeed burn against them in that day, and I will certainly forsake them and conceal my face from them, and they must become something to be consumed, and many calamities and distresses must come upon them, and they will bound to say in that day--'Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these calamities have come upon us?'  As for me, I will absolutely conceal my face in that day because of all the badness that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.  Now write for yourselves this song and teach it to the sons of Israel.  Place it in their mouths in order that this song may serve as my witness against the sons of Israel.  For I shall bring them to the ground that I have sworn about to their ancestors, which flows with milk and honey, and they will certainly eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and turn to other gods, and they will indeed serve them, and treat me with disrespect and break my covenant.  It must occur that when many calamities and distresses will come upon them, this song must also answer before them as a witness, because it should not be forgotten out of the mouth of their offspring, for I well know their inclination that they are developing today before I bring them into the land about which I have sworn.  So Moses wrote this song in that day, that he might teach it to the sons of Israel.  He proceeded to commission Joshua the son of Nun and to say--'Be courageous and strong, because you--you will bring the sons of Israel into the land about which I have sworn to them, and I myself will continue with you.  It came about just as soon as Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book until their completion.  Moses began to command the Levites, the carriers of the ark of God's covenant, said--"Taking this book of the law, you must place it at the side of the ark of the covenant of your God, and it must serve as a witness there against you.  For I --I well know your  

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rebelliousness and your stiff neck.  If while I am yet alive with you today, you have proved rebellious in behavior toward God, then how much more so after my death!  Congregate to me all the older men of your tribes and your officers, and let me speak to their hearing these words, and let me take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.   For I well know that after my death you will without fail act ruinously, and you will certainly turn away from the way about which I have commanded you, and calamity will be bound to befall you at the end of the days, because you will do what is bad in the eyes of God so as to offend him by the works of your hands."     Moses proceeded to speak in the hearing of all congregation of Israel the words of this song until their completion"--           32   Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak.  And let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth.  My instruction will drip as the rain, My saying will trickle as the dew,  As gentle rains upon grass And as copious showers upon vegetation.  For I shall declare the name of Jehovah.   Do you attribute greatness to our God!  The Rock, perfect is his activity,  For all his ways are justice, God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice, Righteous and upright is he.  They have acted ruinously on their own part, They are not his children, the defect is their own.   A generation crooked and twisted!  Is to Jehovah that you keep doing this way, O people stupid and not wise?  Is he not your father who has produced you,   He who made you and proceeded to give you stability?   Remember the days of old, Consider the years back from generation to generation,  Ask your father, and he can tell you, Your old men, and they can say it to you.  When the most high give the nations an inheritance, when he parted sons of Adams from one another, He proceeded to fix the boundary of the peoples With regard for the number of the sons of Israel.  For God's share is his people, Jacob is the allotment that he inherits.  He came to find him in a wilderness land,  And in an empty, howling desert.  He began to encircle him, to take care of him,  To safeguard him as the pupil of his eye.  Just as an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its fledglings, Spreads out its wings, takes them, Carries them on its pinions, 

 

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 Jehovah alone kept leading him,  And there was no foreign god along with him.  He kept making him ride upon earth's high places, so that he ate the produce of the land.  And he kept making him suck honey out of a crag, And oil out of a flinty rock, Butter of the herd and milk of the flock  Together with the fat of rams, And male sheep, the breed of Bashan, and he-goats Together with the kidney fat of wheat, And the blood of the grape you kept drinking as wine.  When Jeshurun began to grow fat, then he kicked.  You have grown fat, you have become thick, you have become gorged.  So he forsook God, who made him, And despised the Rock of his salvation.  They began inciting him to jealousy with strange gods, with detestable things they kept offending him.  They went sacrificing to demons, not to God, Gods whom they had not known, New ones who recently came in, With whom your forefathers were not acquainted.  The Rock who fathered you, you proceeded to forget,  And you began to leave God out of memory, the One bringing you forth with childbirth pains.     When Jehovah saw it, then he came to disrespect them, Because of the vexation his sons and his daughters gave.  So he said, 'Let me conceal my face from them, Let me see what their end will be afterward.  For they are a generation of perverseness, Sons in whom there is no faithfulness,  They, for their part, have incited me to jealousy with what is no god, They have vexed me with their vain idols,  And I, for my part, shall incite them to jealousy with what is no people.  With a stupid nation I shall offend them.  For a fire has been ignited in my anger And it will burn down to Sheol, the lowest place, And it will consume the earth and its produce And will set ablaze the foundations of mountains.  I shall increase calamities upon them, My arrows I shall spend upon them.     Exhausted from hunger they will be and eaten up by burning fever And bitter destruction.  And the teeth of beasts I shall send upon them, With the venom of reptiles of the dust.  Outdoors a sword will bereave them, And indoors fright, Of both young man and virgin, 

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Suckling together with gray haired man.  I should have said, "I shall disperse them, I will make the mention of them cease from mortal men,"  Were it not that I was afraid of vexation from the enemy, That their adversaries might misconstrue it, That they might say, "Our hand has proved superior, And it was not Jehovah who worked all this out,"  For they are a nation on whom counsel perishes, And among them there is no understanding.  O they were wise!  Then they would ponder over this.  They would consider their end afterward.  How could one pursue a 1000,  And  2 put 10,000   to flight?  Not unless the Rock had sold them And Jehovah had surrendered them.  For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies being the ones to decide, For their vines are vines from Sodom And from the terraces of Gomorrah, Their grapes are grapes of poison, Their clusters are bitter, Their wines are venom of big snakes And cruel poison of cobras.  Is it not laid up with me, With a seal affixed to it in my storehouse?  Vengeance is mine and retribution  At the appointed time their foot will move unsteadily, For the day of their disaster is near, And the events in readiness for them to make haste, for Jehovah will judge his people And he will feel regret over his servants, Because he will see that support has disappeared And there is only a helpless and worthless one.  And he will certainly say, Where are their gods, The rock in whom they sought refuge, Who used to eat the fat of their sacrifices, To drink the wine of their drink offerings?  Let them get up and help you, Let them become a concealed place for you.  See now that I--I am he And there are no gods together with me.  I put to death and I make alive.  I have severely wounded, and I -- I will heal, And there is no one snatching out of my hand.  For I raise my hand to heaven in an oath, And I do say,  "As I am alive to time indefinite,"  If I indeed sharpen my glittering sword,  And my hand takes hold on judgment, I will pay back vengeance to my adversaries 

 

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And render retribution to those who intensely hate me.  I shall intoxicate my arrows with blood, While my sword will eat flesh With the blood of the slain and the captives, With the heads of the leaders of the enemy.'  Be glad, you nations, with his people,  For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And he will pay back vengeance to his adversaries And will indeed make atonement for ground of his people.   Thus Moses spoke all the words of this song  in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.  After Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he went on to say to them--"Apply your hearts to all the words that I am speaking in warning to you today, that you may command your sons to take care to do all the words of this law.  For it is no valueless word for you, but it means your life, and by these words you may lengthen your days upon the soil to which you are crossing the Jordan to take ownership of it."    God proceeded to speak to Moses on this same day, said--"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which fronts toward Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession.  Then die on the mountain into which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on mount Hor and got to be gathered to his people, for the reason that you men acted un-dutifully toward me in the middle of sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, for the reason that you men did not sanctify me in the middle of sons of Israel.  For from a distance you will see the land, but you will not go there into the land that I am giving to sons of Israel.            33   Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of true God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.  He proceeded to say--"God came from Sinai and he flashed forth from Seir upon them.  He beamed forth from mountainous region of Paran, and with him were holy myriads, at his right hand warriors belong to them.  He was also cherishing his people.  All their holy ones are in your hand.       And they reclined at your feet.  They began to receive some of your words, Moses laid as a command upon us a law, a possession of the congregation of Jacob.  And he became a king of Jeshurun when the heads of the people gathered themselves, the  entire number of tribes of Israel.  Let Reuben live and not die off and let his men not become few.  This was Judah's blessing, as he went on to say-- 

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"Hear O God, the voice of Judah, And you bring him to his people, His arms have contented for what is his, may you prove yourself a helper from his adversaries."   As to Levi he said--"Your Thummim and your Urim belong to the man loyal to you, Whom you put to the test at Massah.  You began to contend with him by the waters of Meriah, The man  who said to his father and his mother, 'I have not seen him.'   Even his brothers he did not acknowledge.  His sons he did not know.  For they kept your saying, And your covenant they continued to observe.  Let them instruct Jacob in judicial decisions And Israel in your law.  Let them render up incense before your nostrils And a whole offering on your altar.  O bless Jehovah, his vital energy, And may you show pleasures in activities of his hands.  Wound severely in their hips those who rise up against him, And those who intensely hate him, and they may not rise up."  As to Benjamin he said, "Let the beloved one of God reside in security by him, While he shelters him the whole day,  And he must reside between his shoulders."  And as to God he said, "May his land be continually blessed from Jehovah With choice things from heaven, with dew, And with watery deep down below.  And with the choice things, products of the sun, And with the choice things, the yield of lunar months, And with the choicest things from mountains of the east, And with the choice things of indefinitely lasting hills, And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness, And with the approval of the One residing in the thornbush.  May they come upon the head of Joseph And upon the crown of the head of the one singled out from his brothers.  As the  1stborn of his bull his splendor is,  And his horns are the horns of the wild bull.  With them he will push peoples All together to the ends of the earth, And they are the tens of thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.  As to Zebulun he said, "Rejoice O Zebulun, in your going out, And Issachar, in your tents,   Peoples to the mountain they will call.  There they will sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness.  For they will suck the abounding wealth of the seas  

 

 

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And hidden hoards of the sand." As to Gad he said, "Blessed is the one who is widening the borders of Gad. As a lion he must reside, And he must tear the arm, yes, the crown of the head. And he will pick out the first part for himself, For there allotment of a statute giver is reserved. And the heads of the people gather themselves together. The righteousness of Jehovah will he certainly execute And his judicial decisions with Israel. As to Dan he said, "Dan is a lion cub. He will keep out of Bashan." As to Naphtali he said, "Naphtali is satisfied with the approval And full of the blessing of Jehovah. Do take the possession of the west and south." As to Asher he said, "Blessed with sons is Asher. Let him become one approved by his brothers, and one dipping his foot in oil. Iron and copper are your gate locks, And in proportion to your days is your leisurely walk. There is none like the true God of Jeshurun, Who rises upon heaven in help of you And upon cloudy skies in his eminence. A hiding place is the God of ancient time, And underneath are the indefinitely lasting arms. And he will drive away from before you the enemy, and he will say, 'Annihilate them!' And Israel will reside in security, The mountain of Jacob by itself, Upon a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens will let the dew drip down. Happy you are, O Israel! Who is there like you, A people enjoying salvation in Jehovah, The shield of your help, And the One is the eminent sword? So your enemies will cringe before you, And you--upon their high places you will tread."       34   Then Moses proceeded to go up from the desert plains of Moab into Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, which fronts toward Jericho. Jehovah went showing him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, and the Negeb and the District, the valley plain of Jericho, the city of the palm trees as far as Zoar. God went on to say to him, "This is the land about which I have sworn to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, said--'To your seed I shall give it.' I have caused you to see it with your own eyes, as you will not cross over there." After that Moses the servant of God died there in   

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the land of Moab at the order of God. He proceeded to bury him in the valley in the land of Moab in front of Bethpeor, and nobody has come to know his grave down to this day. Moses was 120 years old at this death. His eyes had not grown dim, and his vital strength had not fled. The sons of Israel proceeded to weep for Moses on the desert plains of Moab 30 days. At length the days of weeping of the mourning period for Moses were completed. Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hand upon him, and the sons of Israel began to listen to him and they went doing just as God had commanded Moses. But there has never yet risen up a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom God knew face to face, as respects all the signs and the miracles that God sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and his land, and as regards all the strong hand and all the great awesomeness that Moses exercised before the eyes of all Israel.     

 

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proceeded to say to Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses --"Moses my servant is dead, and now get up, cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.  Every place upon which the sole of your foot will tread, to you people I will certainly give it, just as I promised to Moses.  From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, that is, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun your territory will prove to be.  Nobody will take a firm stand before you all the days of your life.  Just as I proved to be with Moses I will prove to be with you.  I shall neither desert you nor leave you entirely.  Be courageous and strong, for you are the one who will cause this people to inherit the land  that I swore to their ancestors to give to them.  Only be courageous and very strong to take care to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you.  Do not turn away from it to the right or to the left, in order that you may act wisely everywhere you go.  This book of the law should not depart from your mouth, and you must in an undertone read in it day and night, in order that you may take care to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way successful and then you will act wisely.  Have not commanded you?  Be courageous and strong.  do not suffer shock or be terrified, for your God is with you wherever you go."  Joshua proceeded to command the officers of 

Black Ink--Bible Page/Text

Blue Ink -- Understand & Pray

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the people, said--"Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, say--'Get provisions (supply) ready for yourselves, because 3 days from now you are crossing this Jordan to go in and take ownership of the land that God is giving you to take possession of it.  To the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, "Let there be a remembering of the word that Jehovah commanded you, say--'Your God is giving you rest and has given you this land.  Your wives, your little ones and your livestock will live in the land that Moses has given you on this side of the Jordan, but you men will pass over in battle formation before your brothers, all the courageous mighty men, and you must help them.  1st when God gives rest to your brothers the same as to you, and they also have taken possession of the land that your God is giving them, you must also return to the land of your holding and take possession of it, the one that Moses the servant of God has given you on the side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.  Accordingly   they answered Joshua, said--"All that you have commanded us we shall do, and wherever you may send us we shall 

go.  As we listened to Moses in everything, so we shall listen to you.  Only may your God prove to be with you just as he proved to be with Moses.  Any man that behaves rebelliously against your order and does not listen to your words in all that you may command him will be put to death.  Only be courageous and strong.          2    Then Joshua the son of Nun sent 2 men out secretly from Shitttim as spies, said--"Go, take a look at the land and Jericho"  So they went and came to the house of a prostitute woman whose name was Rahab and they took up lodging there.  In time it was said to the king of Jericho--"Look! Men from the sons of Israel have come in here tonight to search out the land."  At that the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, said--"Bring out the men that came to you, that have come into your house, for it is to search out all the land that they have come."  Meanwhile the woman took the 2 men and hid them.  And she proceeded to say--"Yes, the men did come to me, and I did not know from where   they were.  At about at the closing of the gate by dark that the men went out.  I just do not know where the men have gone.  Chase after them quickly for you will overtake them."  (But she, though, had taken them up to the roof, and she kept them out of sight among stalks of flax laid in rows for her upon the roof.)   And the men chased after them in the direction of the Jordan at the fords, and they shut the gate immediately after those chasing after them had gone out.  As for these, before they could lie down, she herself came up to them on the roof.  She went on to say to the men--"I do know that God will certainly give you the land, and that the fright of you has fallen upon us, and that all the people of the land have become disheartened because of you.  For we have heard how God dried up the waters of the Red Sea from before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the 2 kings of  

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the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, namely Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.  When we got to hear it, then our hearts began to melt, and no spirit has arisen yet in anybody because of you, for your God is in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.  Now, please swear to me by God that because I have showed loving kindness toward you, you also will certainly show loving kindness toward the household of my father, and you must give me a trustworthy sign--you must keep alive my father, mother, brothers and sisters and all who belong to them, and you must deliver our souls from death."    At that the men said to her--"Our souls are to die instead of you people! If you will not tell about this matter of ours, it must also occur that when God gives us the land, we also shall certainly exercise loving kindness and trustworthiness to you." After that she had them go down by a rope through the window, for her house was on a side of the wall, and it was on the wall that she was living.  She proceeded to say to them--"Go to the mountainous  region, that those in pursuit may not come in contact with you, and you must keep hiding there 3 days, until those in pursuit have come back, and afterward you may go in your own direction."  In turn the men said to her--"We are free from guilt respecting this oath of yours that you have made us swear.  Look!  We are coming into the land. This cord of scarlet thread you should tie in the window by which you have had us go down, and your father, mother. brothers and all the household of your father you should gather to yourself into the house. It must occur that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the open, his blood will be upon his own head, and we shall be free from guilt, and everyone who continues with you in the house, his blood will be in our heads if a hand should come upon against him.  If you should report this matter of ours, we shall also become free from guilt respecting this oath of yours that you have made us swear."  To this she said--"According to your words so let it be."  With that she sent them off and they went on their way.  After that she tied the scarlet cord in the window.  So they came to the mountainous  region  and kept living there for 3 days, until pursuers came back.  Now the pursuers were looking for them on every road but they didn't find them.  And the 2 men proceeded to come down from the mountainous area and to cross over and come to Joshua the son of Nun, and they began to relate to him all the things that have happened to them.  They went on to say to Joshua--"God has given all the land into our hands.  Consequently all the inhabitants of the land have also grown disheartened because of us."            3    Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and he and all the sons of Israel proceeded to pull away from Shittim and to go as far as Jordan, and they went spending the night there before they would cross.  So it was about at the end of the 3 days that the officers proceeded to pass through the midst of the camp and to command the people, 

 

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saying--"As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests, the Levites, carrying it, then you yourselves will leave away from your place, and you must follow it -- only let there prove to be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits (approx. 3000 feet) by measure, do not get near to it--in order that you may know the way by which you should go, for you have not passed over on that way before."  Joshua now said to the people--"Sanctify (purify) yourselves for tomorrow Jehovah will do wonderful things in your midst."  Then Joshua said to the priest--"Take up the ark of the covenant and pass before the people."   So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.  God proceeded to say to Joshua-- "This day I shall start to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, that they may know that just as I proved to be with Moses I shall prove to be with you.   And you--you should command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, say--"As soon as you have come as far as the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you should stand still to the Jordan.'"   Joshua went on to say to the sons of Israel--"Approach here and listen to the words of your God."   After that Joshua said "By this you will know that a living God is in your midst, and that he will without fail drive away from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.  Look!  The ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth is passing before you into the Jordan.  Now take for yourselves 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.  It must occur that at the instant that the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of the whole earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, the waters descending from above, and they will stand still as dam."  It was about that when the people left away from their tents just before passing over the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people, and at the instant that the carriers of the Ark came as far as the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the Ark were dipped in the edge of the waters (now the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest),  then the waters descending from above began to stand still.  They rose up as one dam, very far away from Adam, the city at the side of Zarethan, while those descending toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were exhausted.  They were cut off, and the people passed over in front of Jericho.   Meanwhile the priests carrying the ark of God's covenant kept standing immovable on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan as all Israel were passing over on dry ground, until the whole nation had completed passing over the Jordan.               4     It was about as soon as the whole nation had completed passing over the Jordan, God proceeded to to say to Joshua--"Take for yourselves 12 men from the people, one man from each tribe and command them, say--"Take up for yourselves from the very midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests feet stood motionless, 

 

 

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   12  stones, and you must carry them over with you and deposit them in the lodging place in which you will lodge tonight.'"  So Joshua called 12 men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe.  Joshua went on to say to them--"Pass ahead of the ark of God your Jehovah to the middle of the Jordan, and lift up for yourselves each one a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, in order that this may serve as a sign in your midst.  In case your sons should ask in time,  saying--"Why do you have these stones?"  You must also say to them--'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off from before the ark of Jehovah's covenant.  When it passed through the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off, and these stones must serve as a memorial to the sons of Israel to time indefinite.'"   Accordingly the sons of Israel did so, just as Joshua had commanded, and they took up 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as God had stated to Joshua, to correspond with the number of tribes of the sons of Israel--they went taking them over with them to the lodging place and depositing them there.  There were also 12 stones that Joshua set up in the middle of the Jordan on the standing place of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, and they continue there until this day.  The priests carrying the Ark were standing in the middle of the Jordan until the whole matter had been completed that God had ordered Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua.  All the while people hurried up and passed over.  It was about as soon as all the people had completed passing over, then the ark of God passed over, and the priests, before the people.   The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh proceeded to pass over in battle formation in the sight of sons of Israel, just as Moses had stated to them.  About 40,000 equipped for the army passed over before God for the war onto the desert plains of Jericho.  On that day God made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they began to fear him just as they had feared Moses all days of his life.  Then God said to Joshua--"Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony that they go up out of the Jordan."  So Joshua commanded the priests, said--"Go up out of the Jordan."  It was about that when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of God came up out of the middle of the Jordan and the soles of the feet of the priests were drawn out onto the dry ground, then the waters of the Jordan began returning to their place and went overflowing all its banks as formerly.   The people came up out of the Jordan on the 10th of the 1st month and took up camping at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.  As for the 12 stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set these up at Gilgal.  He went on to say to the sons of Israel--"When your sons ask their fathers in time, asking--"What do these stones mean?"  You must then let your sons know, 
 

 

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saying-'On the dry land it was that Israel passed over this Jordan, when your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before them until they had passed over, just as your God had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up from before us until we had passed over--in order that all the peoples of the earth may know God's hand, that it is strong, in order that you may indeed fear your God always.'"  It was about that as soon as all the kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that God had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until they had passed over, then their hearts began to melt and there proved to be no spiritedness in them anymore because of the sons of Israel.    At that particular time God said to Joshua--"Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the   2nd time."  Accordingly Joshua made flint knives for himself and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeathhaaraloth.  This was the reason why Joshua did the circumcising,  all the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the road when they were coming out of Egypt.  For all the people who came out proved to be circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the road when they were coming out of Egypt they had not circumcised.  For the sons of Israel had walked 40 years in the wilderness, until all the nation of the men of war who came out of Egypt that did not listen to the voice of God had come to its finish, to whom God swore that he would never let them see the land that God had sworn to their ancestors to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.  Their sons he raised up instead of them.  These Joshua circumcised, because they proved to be uncircumcised, for they had not circumcised them on the road.  It was about that when they had completed circumcising all the nation, they kept sitting in their place in the camp until they revived.  Then God said to Joshua--"Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you."  So the name of that place came to be called Gilgal until this day.   The sons of Israel continued to camp in Gilgal, and they proceeded to carry out the passover on the 14th day of the month, in the evening on the desert plains of Jericho.  They began to eat some of the yield of the land the day after the passover, unfermented cakes and roasted grains, on this same day.  Then the manna ceased on the following day when they had eaten some of the yield of the land, and manna did not occur anymore for the sons of Israel, and they began to eat some of the produce of the land of Canaan in that year.  It was about when Joshua happened to be by Jericho that he proceeded to raise his eyes and look, and there there was a man standing in front of him with his drawn sword in his hand.  So Joshua walked up to him and said to him--"Are you for us or for our adversaries?"  To this he said--"No, but I--as prince of the army of God I have now come."  With that Joshua fell on his face to the 

 

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earth and prostrated (lay down with face to the ground and arms stretched out by sides and legs stretched out)   himself and said to him--"What is my lord saying to his servant?"  In turn the prince of the army of God said to Joshua--"Draw your sandals from off your feet, because the place on which you are standing is holy"  At once Joshua did so.        6   Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the sons of Israel, no one going out and no one entering.  God went on to say to Joshua--"See, I have given Jericho and its king, the valiant (courageous) mighty men, into your hand.  All you men of war must march round the city, going round the city once.  That is the way you should do for 6 days.  7 priests should carry 7 rams horns, before the Ark, and march round the city 7 times, and the priests should blow the horns.  It must occur that when they sound with the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the horn, all the people should shout a great war cry, and the wall of the city must fall down flat, and the people must go up, each one straight before him."   Accordingly Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them--"Take up the ark of the covenant, and 7 priests should carry 7 rams' horns before the ark of Jehovah."  He went on to say to the people--"Pass on and march round the city, and the war-equipped force should pass on ahead of the ark of Jehovah."    So it came about just as Joshua said to the people, and 7 priests carrying 7 rams horns before Jehovah passed on and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of God was following them.  The war-equipped force was going ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard was following the Ark with continual blowing on the horns.   Now Joshua had commanded the people, said--"You must neither shout nor let your voices be heard, and no word should come out of your mouths until the day when I say to you, 'Shout.!  Then you must shout."  He had the ark of God go marching round the city, going round ones, after which they went to the camp and stayed overnight in the camp.  Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests went carrying the ark of God, and 7 priests carrying rams' horns before the ark of God were walking, continually blowing the horns, and the war equipped force was walking ahead of them, while the rear guard was following the ark of God with a continual blowing on the horns.   They went marching round the city on the 2nd day once, after which they returned to the camp.  That was the way they did for 6 days.  It was about on the 7th day that they proceeded to get up early, as soon as the dawn ascended, and they went marching round the city in this manner 7 times.  Just on that day they marched round the city 7 times.  It was abut on the 7th time that the priests blew the horns, and Joshua proceeded to say to the people--"Shout, for God has given you the city.  And the city must become a thing devoted to destruction, it with everything that is in it belongs to God.  Only Rahab the prostitute may keep on living, she and all who are with her in the house, because she did hid messengers whom we sent out.  

 

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As for you people, only keep away from the thing devoted to destruction, for fear you may get a desire and you do take some of the thing devoted to destruction and do constitute the camp of Israel a thing devoted to destruction and bring ostracism upon it.  But all the silver and the gold and the articles of copper and iron are something holy to God.  Into the treasure of God it should go."   Then the people shouted, when they proceeded to blow the horns.  It was about that as soon as the people heard the sound of the horn and the people began to shout a great war cry, then the wall began to fall down flat.  After that the people went up into the city, each one straight before him, and captured the city.  They went devoting all that was in the city, from man to woman, from young man to old man and to bull and sheep and ass, to destruction by the edge of the sword.  To the 2 men who had done the spying on the land, Joshua said--"Go into the house of the woman, the prostitute, and bring out of there the woman and all who belong to her, just as you have sworn to her."  So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother, brothers and all who belonged to her, yes, all her family relationship they brought out, and they proceeded to set them down outside the camp of Israel.  They burned the city with fire and everything that was to it.  Only silver and gold, and the articles of copper and iron they gave to the treasure of God's house.  Rahab the prostitute and the household of her father and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive, and she lives in the midst of Israel down to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent out to spy on Jericho.  Then Joshua had an oath pronounced at that particular time, said--"Cursed may the man be before God who pets up and does build this city, even Jericho.  At the forfeit (give up) of his  1stborn let him lay the foundation of it, and at the forfeit of his youngest let him put up its doors."   So God proved to be with Joshua, and his fame came to be in all the earth.          7      The sons of Israel went committing an act of unfaithfulness respecting the thing devoted to destruction in that Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the thing devoted to destruction.  At this God's anger grew hot against the sons of Israel.  Then Joshua sent men out from Jericho to Ai, which is close by Bethaven, to the east of Bethel, and said to them--"Go up and spy on the land."  Accordingly the men went up and spied on Ai.  After that they returned to Joshua and said to him--"Let about 2,000 men or about 3,000 men go up and strike Ai.  Do not weary all the people with going there, for they are few."  So about 3,000 men of the people went up there, but they took to flight before the men of Ai.  And the men of Ai got to strike down about 36 men of them, and they went pursuing them from before the gate as far as Shebarim and continued striking them down on the descent.  Consequently 

 

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the heart of the people began to melt and became as water.  At this Joshua ripped his mantles and fell upon his face to the earth before the ark of God until the evening, he and the older men of Israel, and they kept putting dust upon their heads.  Joshua went on to say--"Alas, Sovereign Lord Jehovah, why did you bring this people all the way across the Jordan, just to give us into the hand of the Amorites for them to destroy us?  Only if we had taken it upon ourselves and continued living on the other side of the Jordan!   Excuse me, O God, but what can I say after Israel has turned his back before his enemies?  The Canaanites and all the people of the land will hear of it, and they will certainly surround us and cut our name off from the earth--and what will you do for your great name?"  In turn God said to Joshua--"Get up, you! Why is it that you are falling upon your face?  Israel has sinned, and they have also overstepped my covenant that I laid as a command upon them, and they have also taken some of the thing devoted to destruction and have also stolen and also kept it secret, and have also put it among their own articles. The sons of Israel will not be able to rise up against their enemies.  The back is what they will turn before their enemies, because they have become a thing devoted to destruction, I shall not prove to be with you again unless you destroy the thing devoted to destruction out of your midst.  Get up! Sanctify the people, and you must say--"Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for this is what God of Israel has said--"A thing devoted in destruction is in your midst, O Israel.  You will not be able to rise up against your enemies until you have removed a thing devoted to destruction  from your midst.    You must present yourselves in the morning, tribe by tribe, it must occur that the tribe that God will pick will come near, family by family, and family that God will pick will come near, household by household, and household that God will pick will come near, able-bodied man by able-bodied man.   It must occur that the thing devoted to destruction will be burned by fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has overstepped the covenant of God, and he has committed a disgraceful folly in Israel."'"   Then Joshua rose early in the morning and had Israel come near, tribe by tribe of it, and tribe of Judah got to be picked.  Next he had the families of Judah come near and picked family of Zerahites, after which he had the family of Zerahites come near, able-bodied man by able-bodied man, and Zabdi got to be picked, Finally he had his household come near, able-bodied man by able bodied man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,  the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, got to be picked.   Then Joshua said to Achan --"My son, render please, glory to God of Israel and make confession to him, and tell me please,  what have you done?  Don't hide it from me."  At this Achan answered Joshua and said--"For a fact I -- I have sinned against God of Israel, and this way and that way I have done.  When I got to see among the spoil an official garment from Shinar, a good looking one, and 200 

 

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  shekels (money) of silver and 1 gold bar, 50 shekels being its weight, then I wanted them, and I took them, and look! they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent with money underneath it.  At once God sent messengers, and they went running to the tent, and, look! it was hidden in his tent with the money underneath it.   So they took them from the midst of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the sons of Israel and poured them out before God.  Joshua, and all Israel with him, now took Achan the son of Zerah and the silver and the official garment and the bar of gold and his sons and his daughters and his bull,  ass, his flock and his tent and everything that was his and they brought them up to the low plain of Achor.    Then Joshua said--"Why have you brought ostracism upon us? God will bring ostracism upon you on this day."  With that all Israel went pelting him with stones, after which they burned them with fire.  Thus they stoned them with stones.   They proceeded to raise up over him a big pile of stones, down to this day.  At this God turned away from his hot anger.  That is why the name of that place has been called Low Plains of Achor, down to this day.                8        Then God said to Joshua--"Do not be afraid or be terrified.  Take with you all the people of war and get up, go up to Ai.  See, I have given into your hand the king Ai and his people and his city and his land."  You must do to Ai and to its king just as you did to Jericho and its king.  Only you people may plunder its spoil and its domestic animals for yourselves.  Set an ambush of yours against the city at its rear."   Accordingly Joshua and all the people of war rose to go up to Ai, and Joshua proceeded to choose 30,000 men, valiant mighty ones, and to send them off by night.   He went on to command them, said--"See, you are lying in ambush against the city to the rear of the city.  Don't go very far away from the city, and you must all of you hold yourselves in readiness.  As for me and all the people who are with me, we shall go close to the city.  And it must occur that, in case they should come out to meet us just as at the  1st, we must then flee before them.   They must come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say--'They are fleeing before us just as at the first.'  We must flee before them.   Then you--you will rise up from the ambush, and you must take ownership of the city, and your God will certainly give it into your hands.  It must occur that as soon as  you have seized the city, you should set the city on fire.  According to God's word you should do.  See, I have ordered you."  After that Joshua sent them out and they marched to the place of ambush and took up quarters between Bethel and Ai to the west of Ai, while Joshua kept lodging on that night in the midst of the people.  Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and reviewed the people and went up, he and the older men of Israel, before the people to Ai.  All the people of war who were with him went up, that they might approach and get in front of the city, and they proceeded to camp to the north of Ai, with the valley between them and Ai.  In the meantime he took about 5,000 men and set them as an ambush between Bethel  

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and Ai, to the west of the city.  So the people set  the main camp that was to the north of the city and the extreme rear of it that was to the west of the city, and Joshua proceeded to go during that night into the middle of the low plain.   It was about that, as soon as the king of Ai saw it, then the men of the city got in a hurry and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time, before the desert plain.   As for him, he did not know that there was an ambush (surprise attack) against him to the rear of the city.  When Joshua and all Israel suffered a blow before them, then they took to flight by the way of the wilderness.  At that all the people who were in the city were called out to chase after them, and they went chasing after Joshua and got to be drawn away from the city.  There was not a man remaining in Ai and Bethel that did not go out after Israel, so that they left the city wide open and went chasing after Israel.    God now said to Joshua--"Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for into your hand I shall give it."  Accordingly Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.   The ambush rose up quickly from its place, and they began to run at the instant that he stretched out his hand, and they proceeded to enter the city and capture it.  Then they hurried and set the city on fire.  The men of Ai began to turn back and look, and there the smoke of the city ascended (go up) to the heavens, and there proved to be no ability in them to flee this way or that.  The people that were fleeing to the wilderness turned up the pursuers.    Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush and captured the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, and so they turned around and went striking (killing) the men of Ai down.  These others came out of the city to meet them, so that they got be in between Israel, these on this side and those on that, and they went striking them down until there did not remain of them either a survivor or an escapee.  The king of Ai they caught alive and proceeded to bring him near to Joshua.   It was about that while Israel was finishing the killing of all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness in which they had pursued them, they kept falling, all of them, by the edge of the sword until they came to their end.  After that all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.  All those who fell on that day, from man to woman, amounted to 12,000, all the people of Ai.  Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the Javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.  Only the domestic animals and the spoil of that city Israel plundered for themselves, accordingly to God's word that he had laid in command upon Joshua.  Then Joshua burned Ai and reduced it to an indefinitely lasting mound, as a desolation down to this day.  He hanged the king of Ai upon a stake until the evening time, and as the sun was about to set Joshua gave the command, and then they took his dead body down from the stake and pitched it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised up a great pile of stones over him, down to this day.

 

  

 

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It was then that Joshua proceeded to build an altar to God the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of God had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses--"An altar of whole stones, upon which no iron tool has been wielded", and they went offering up burnt offerings upon it to God and sacrificing communion sacrifices.   Then he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses that he had written before the sons of Israel.    All Israel and their older men, and the officers and their judges were standing on this side and on that side of the Ark in front of the priests, the Levites, carrying the ark of the covenant of God, the alien resident as well as the native, one half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half of them in front of Mount Ebal, (just as Moses the servant of God had commanded), to bless the people of Israel first at all.  After this he read aloud all the words of the law, the blessing and the malediction (curse), according to all that is written in the book of the law.  There proved to be not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read aloud in front of all the congregation of Israel, together with the women and the little ones and the alien residents who walked in their midst.           9   It was about that as soon as all the kings who were on the side of the Jordan in the mountainous  region  and in the Shephelah and along the whole coast of the Great Sea and in front of Lebanon, the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, the Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites heard of it, they began to assemble themselves all together to make war against Joshua and Israel unanimously.  The people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai.  So they, even of their own account acted with shrewdness and went and stocked themselves with provisions and took worn out sacks for their asses, and wine skin-bottles worn out and burst and tied up, and worn out and patched sandals on the feet, and worn out clothes upon themselves, and all the bread of their provisions (supply) proved to be dry and crumby.  Then they went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and the men of Israel--"It is from a distant land that we have come.  Now conclude a covenant with us."  At this the men of Israel said to the Hivites--"Perhaps it is in our vicinity that you are living.  So how could we conclude a covenant with you?"  In turn they said to Joshua--"We are your servants."  Then Joshua said to them, "Who are you, and where do you come from?"  At this they said to him--"It is from a very distant land that your servants have come in regard to the name of your God, because we have heard of his fame and of all that he did to Egypt, and of all that he did to the 2 kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, namely, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.  Hence our older men and all the people of our land said this to us--"Take provisions in your hands for the journey and to go meet them, and you must say to them,  

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We are your servants.  And now conclude a covenant  (end a relationship) with us."'  This bread of ours, it was hot when we took it as our provisions (supply) out of our houses on the day of our going out to come here to you, and now, look!  it is dry and has become crumby.  These are the wine skin bottles that we filled new, and look! they have burst, and these clothes and sandals of ours, they have worn out because of the great length of the journey."   Upon that the men took some of their provisions, and at the mouth of God they did not inquire.  Joshua went making peace with them, and concluding a covenant with them to let them live, and so the chieftains of the assembly swore to them.  It was about that at the end of 3 days, after they had concluded a covenant with them, they got to hear that they were near to them, and it was in their vicinity they were living.  Then the sons of Israel left and came to their cities on the 3rd day, and their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriathjearim.  The sons of Israel did not strike them, because the chieftains of the assembly had sworn to them by God the God of Israel.  All the assembly began to murmur against the chieftains.   At this all the chieftains said to all the assembly--"We, for our part, have sworn to them by God the God of Israel, and now we are not allowed to hurt them.  This is what we shall do to them while letting them live, that no indignation (resentment, anger)  may come upon us over the oath that we have sworn to them."  So the chieftains said to them--"Let them live and let them become gatherers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the chieftains have promised them."  Joshua now called them and spoke to them, said--"Why did you trick us, saying, 'We are very far away from you,' whereas you are living in our very midst?   Now you are cursed people, and a slave's position and being gathers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God will never be cut off from you.   Then they answered Joshua and said--"It was because your servants were plainly told that your God had ordered Moses his servant to give you all the land and to destroy all the people of the land before you, we became very much afraid for our souls because of you.  So we did this thing.  Now here we are, in your hand.  Just as it is good and right in your eyes to do us, do."  And he proceeded to do so to them and to deliver them from the hand of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.  Accordingly Joshua constituted them on that day gatherers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly and for God's altar, down to this day, at the place that he should choose.            10    It was about that as soon as Adonizedek the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and then devoted it to destruction, that just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were continuing in their midst, he became very much afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater  

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 than Ai, and all its men were mighty ones.  Consequently Adonizedek the king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham the king of Hebron and to Piram the king of Jarmuth and to Japhia the king of Lachish and to Debir the king of Eglon, said--'"Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and the sons of Israel."   At this they gathered together and went on up, 5 kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, these and all their camps, and they proceeded to camp against Gibeon and to war against it.  Upon that the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, said--"Don't let your hand relax from your slaves.  Come up to us quickly and do save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites living in the mountainous  region have collected together against us."  So Joshua went on up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the valiant mighty men.   Then God said to Joshua--"Don't be afraid of them. for into your hand I have given them.  Not a man of them will stand against you."  Joshua proceeded to come up against them by surprise.  All night long he had gone up from Gilgal.  God went throwing them into confusion before Israel, and they began to slay (kill) them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and went pursuing them by way of the ascent (rise) of Bethhoron, and slaying them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.  It was about that while they were fleeing from before Israel and were on the descent of Bethhoron, God hurled (toss) a great stones from the heavens upon them as far as Azekah, so that they died.  There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.  It was then that Joshua proceeded to speak to God on the day of God's abandoning the Amorites to the sons of Israel, and he went on to say before the eyes of Israel--"Sun,"  be motionless over Gibeon, And moon, over the low plains of Aijalon."   Accordingly the sun kept motionless, and the moon did stand still, until the nation could take vengeance on its enemies.  Is it not written in the book Jashar?  The sun kept standing still in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.  No day has proved to be like that one, either before it or after it, in that God listened of the voice of a man, for God himself was fighting for Israel.  After that Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.  Meantime these 5 kings fled and went hiding themselves in the cave at Makkedah.  Then the report was made to Joshua, said--"The 5 kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."  At that Joshua said--"Roll, great stones up to the mouth of the cave and assign men over it to guard them.  As for you men, do not stand still.  Chase after your enemies, and you must strike them in the rear.  Do not allow them to enter into their cities, for your God has given them into your hands."   It was about that as soon as Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until these came to their end, and 

  

 

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those who did survive of them escaped and went entering into the fortified (defense walled)  cities, all the people then began to return to the camp, to Joshua, at Makkedah in peace.  Not a man moved his tongue eagerly against the sons of Israel.   Then Joshua said--"Open the mouth of the cave and bring out these 5 kings from the cave to me."  At that they did so and brought out to him from the cave these 5 kings, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.   It was about that as soon as  they had brought out these kings to Joshua, Joshua proceeded to call all the men of Israel and to say to the commanders of the men of war that had gone with him--"Come forward.  Place your feet on the back of the necks of these kings."  So they came forward and placed their feet on the back of their necks.  Joshua went on to say to them--"Don't be afraid or be terrified.  Be courageous and strong, for it is like this that God will do to all your enemies against whom you are warring."  After that Joshua proceeded to strike them and put them to death and hang them upon live stakes, and they continued hanging upon the stakes until the evening.  It was about that at the time of the setting of the sun Joshua commanded, and they went taking them down off the stakes and throwing them into the cave where they had hid themselves.  Then  they placed big stones at the mouth of the cave--until this very day.  Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and went striking it with the edge of the sword.  As for its king, he devoted him and every soul that was in it to destruction.  He let no survivor remain.  So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.  Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkadek to Libnah and warred against Libnah.  Accordingly God gave it also and its king into Israel's hand, and they went striking it and every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword.  They did not let a survivor remain in it.  So they did to its king just as they had done to the king of Jericho.  Next Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and went camping against it and warring upon it.  Accordingly God gave Lachish into Israel's hand so that they captured it on the 2nd day, and they went striking it and every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that they had done to Libnah.  It was then that Horam the king of Gezer went up to help Lachish.  So Joshua struck him and his people until he had let not a survivor of his remain.   Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon and went camping against it and warring against it.  They got to capture it on that day and began to smite it with the edge of the sword, and they devoted every soul that was in it to destruction on that day, according to all that they had done to Lachish.   Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and began to war against it.  They got to capture it and went striking it, and its king and all its towns and every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword.  He did not let a survivor remain, according to all that he had done to Eglon.  So  

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he devoted it and every soul that was in it to destruction.  Finally Joshua and all Israel with him came back to Debir and began to war against it.  He got to capture it, and its king and all its towns, and they  went striking them with the edge of the sword and devoting every soul that was in it to destruction.  He did not let a survivor remain.  Just as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and just as he had done to Libnah and its king.  Joshua proceeded to strike all the land of the mountainous region  and the Negeb, and the Shephelah and the slopes and all their kings.   He did not let a survivor remain, and everything that breathed he devoted to destruction, just as God the God of Israel had commanded.  Joshua went striking them from Kadeshbarnea to Gaza and all the land of Goshen and up to Gibeon.  Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because it was God the God of Israel who was fighting for Israel.  After that Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.  11      It was about that as soon as Jabin the king of Hazor heard of it, he went sending to Jobab the king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and the king of Achshaph, and to the kings that were to the north in the mountainous  region and in the desert plains south of Chinnereth and in the Shephelah and on the mountain ridges of Dor to the west, the Canaanites to the east and the west, and the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and Jebusites in the mountainous region and the Hivites at the base of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.   So they went out, they and all their camps with them, a people as numerous as the grains of sand that are on the seashore for the masses, and very many horses and war chariots.   Then all these kings met together by appointment and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.   At this God said to Joshua--"Don't be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I am abandoning all of them slain to Israel.  Their horses you will hamstring (disable), and their chariots you will burn in the fire.   More than that, Joshua turned about at that time, and captured Hazor, and its king he struck down with the sword, because Hazor was before that the head of all these kingdoms.  They went striking every every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction.  No breathing thing at all was left over, and he burned Hazor in the fire.  All the cities of these kings and all their kings Joshua captured and went striking them with the edge of the sword.  He     

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